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TIL the United States Geological Survey (USGS) uses the term "Gage" instead of "Gauge" because one employee in 1892 reasoned that the term "Gage" was the "proper Saxon spelling," instead of the Norman "Gauge"

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ORGL TIL Beretta firearms has been owned and operated by the same family for almost 500 years.
neebP TIL the Orient Express Became the World’s Most Glamorous Train
rp01 TIL that both Mama Cass (from the Mamas & the Papas) and Keith Moon (from The Who) died in the same apartment owned by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.
6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
E1aKV TIL : The World population was about 300 million at the time of Jesus. A thousand years later it was about 310 million.