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P17aZ TIL using the instructed amount of washing detergent leaves clothes dirtier
4kVRb TIL that the British call crosswalks "zebra crossings"
VBY9B TIL the world's shortest war happened in Zanzibar when the Sultan Khalid bin Bargash refused Britain's order to give Hamoud bin Muhammad his throne, the war started at exactly 9 a.m. and lasted 40 minutes.
rROX1 TIL Puritans were actually pro-sex for pleasure, and would censure parishioners who denied their partner sex or 3+ months.
e6G6 TIL that Galileo was placed under house arrest by The Holy Office until his death in 1642 for defending his views about the Earth not being the center of the universe. The Vatican formally acknowledged they were wrong and Galileo was right in 1992.