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TIL the Finnish word kalsarikännit means to get drunk at home, alone in your underwear

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X0AnE TIL the co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica was a 4'6" tall Scot with crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version. He deliberately rode the tallest horse available in Edinburgh, dismounting by a ladder to the cheers of onlookers.
yVYnv TIL that the village of Capernaum, which was allegedly the base for Jesus' ministry in Galilee, has been a ruin since the 11th century, and is today abandoned except for a Greek Orthodox Church built in 1931.
EgWYW TIL “tab” on a keyboard is short for “tabulate/tabulator”, (consisting of or presenting in columns or tables).
ADWX4 TIL During WWII, the German army used a radar system called Wotan. The British scientist R.V. Jones figured out how the system worked by assuming that it used a single beam based on the fact that the Germanic god Wotan had only one eye.
A7dd TIL that a flight attendant survived falling 33,000 feet after her plane was destroyed by a bomb. It’s the longest anyone’s even fallen and lived.