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TIL The meter (metre) was originally defined to be one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris

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N71ne TIL about Cognitive Bias, which is is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. People create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.
GYGR5 TIL Ang Mey was one of few female rulers in Cambodia's history. Installed on the Cambodian throne by the Vietnamese, all Cambodian women were ordered to wear Vietnamese-style pyjamas and the market sold only Vietnamese food
wxgE TIL that after the death of Alexander the Great, the architect Dinocrates proposed to have the entirety of Mount Athos carved in the general’s likeness.
gdo9 TIL the Finnish make a traditional beer that has the distinct taste of banana
D1yQV TIL that as recently as 1999, it was commonly thought that babies can't feel pain until they're 1 year old. As a result, even open heart surgeries were done without any anaestesia (1987, US)