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TIL February 31st is occasionally used on grave stones when the exact date of birth or death was unknown.

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690g7 TIL that in the 18th century English sailors aboard the HMS Dolphin stopped in Tahiti and discovered the women there would take iron in exchange for sex, resulting in the sailors removing nails from the ship and trading them in for their personal gratification.
L8gZ TIL that “peruse” is it’s own antonym, defined as (a) to examine in detail or (b) to look over in a casual manner.
RB6j [TIL] As lemon juice is used to make invisible ink, a man tried to rob a bank thinking he was invisible by putting lemon juice on his face.
WkLjY TIL Walt Disney World is 40 square miles, making it the same size as San Francisco and 2x the size of Manhattan.
MdVm TIL There is such an expansive collection of books under the British library in their archive, that if a person could read 5 books per day it would take the 80,000 years to complete.