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TIL People who hang out watching canal traffic are called Gongoozlers.

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5VdEn TIL that Metallica's 1998 cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" was recorded closer in time to the original 1976 live version than it is to the present day.
wLGwW NASA has successfully tested an advanced air-to-air photographic technology in flight, capturing the first-ever images of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft in flight.
9Myr TIL that in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, Avengers members Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are a couple. And siblings. Seriously. That’s a thing that Marvel committed to.
LQrGZ TIL FATCA effectively bans Americans from opening bank accounts abroad
0wdlM TIL According to Plutarch the traitor Bessus was executed by having two trees forcibly bent towards each other, tied him to both, and then the trees released, causing an agonizing death in which the ligaments, tendons, muscles and organs would slowly come apart as the trees straightened