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TIL The UK release of Fallout changed all indications of the word “drug” to “chems” that would become the standard for the series since Fallout 3

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GY9e5 TIL that the GPS service used globally is paid for by the U.S. Department of Defense, and costs upwards of a billion dollars annually.
AYZx TIL there are 101 acceptable 2 letter words in scrabble.
nedJB TIL The 1997 experiment at Fermilab which confirmed the existence of the tau neutrino was called DONUT (Direct observation of the nu tau)
LQL6p TIL Tallinn is the biggest city and the first national capital in the world to offer free bus services for everybody
5MKB TIL that in the 60s, most people used just one Alka-Seltzer tablet at a time. They created the popular “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” jingle to encourage people to use two tablets — sales nearly doubled.