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TIL that the exact meaning of the letter “p” in the pH scale is unknown because the inventor never bothered to explain what it stood for.

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VKem TIL in 1700 India’s economy had a 24.4% share of world income, the largest in the world after which it steadily declined under the British Raj (Empire) until in 1952, it was only 3.8%.
LMyZ TIL the TLD for commercial websites in the Cook islands is .co.ck
8epjZ TIL a Thai prime minister jumped off a sinking warship and swam to safety. In the Manhattan rebellion, the Navy took the PM hostage aboard a ship. The Air Force and Army were mobilized to put down the rebels. Fierce fighting ensued and the ship with the PM onboard sunk. This was 6 years after WW2.
X0mQ TIL that WWI technically ended in 1958 as Andorra was forgotten when the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
MwLB TIL Mohammad Mosaddegh was a democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry by seizing it from the hands of the England and USA