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TIL languages have different conversational representation for barking dogs.

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E1OVo TIL about Richard Feynman who taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus at the age of 15. Later he jokingly Cracked the Safes with Atomic Secrets at Los Alamos by trying numbers he thought a physicist might use.
gbg9 TIL August 24 is the anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the devastation of Pompeii (79 A.D.). The city was buried under 14 to 17 feet of ash and pumice, and would not be rediscovered again until 1748.
68JQ TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” The case was dismissed.
b9ABj TIL that in 2009 two nuclear submarines (French and British) collided into one another in the Atlantic... because they couldn't detect one another.
6WMZ TIL The 1997 comedy film Trojan War had a 15 million dollar budget and only made back $309.00 dollars in ticket sales at the cinema.