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TIL ‘egregious’ used to mean 'exceptionally good’ in Latin, but everyone used it sarcastically and now only the opposite meaning exists

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b4XQ TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them.
neaV7 TIL The Danish Navy accidentally fired an anti-ship missile at its mainland destroying several properties. They later called this the 'oops' missile.
91jQ TIL that when Theodore Roosevelt’s parents were unsatisfied with his and the other children’s command of German, they shipped them off to live in Dresden for 5 months with a German family
6DoJ TIL One of the test pilots for the interceptor version of the SR-71 was chosen for Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. He had a heart attack after his moon walk and the only reason anybody knew was because NASA noticed it on his heart monitor. It was left out of the mission debriefing records.
Zp9Da TIL that Pablo Neruda (the Nobel winning poet laureate) who died 12 days after Pinochet's successful coup in 1973. This week, a new toxicological report confirmed his poisoning, finding traces of Clostridium Botulinum, a neurotoxin that paralyzes the muscles and the nervous system leading to death.