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TIL Liverpool is (STILL) the best team of the world!

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Wk4LA TIL late medieval and early modern European cartographers believed that compasses consistently pointed North because there was a massive, perfectly circular island made of naturally-magnetic black rock at the North Pole.
8kK8 TIL a Canadian Non-Profit organization began teaching Vancouver-area alcoholics how to brew their own beer and make wine in an effort to keep them from drinking alternate sources of alcohol, like rubbing alcohol, mouthwash, and hand sanitizer
4XKNR TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary has included the informal use of the word "literally" in its official definition since 2011, and that use of the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" has been documented as far back as 250 years.
WkB6A TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.
VMnJZ TIL The "glass" on your iPhone lens cover is not actually glass. It's pure sapphire which is crystallised aluminium oxide. Which is much more resistant to scratches than glass.