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TIL that "pair of pants" is a fixed term of mathematics that describes a certain type of surface with three holes

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kJo74 TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.
0wpYv Today i learned that if we could power a smartphone with gasoline, one drop of it has enough energy to run the phone for an entire day. A gallon of gasoline would last for 20 years.
a8PXb TIL that under the American Homestead Act of 1862, single women over 21 or any man over 21 could claim 160 acres of land by living on it for five years, building a home, making improvements, and paying a small fee. Married women were not allowed.
Lk8BZ TIL The United States Supreme Court has declared tomatoes are legally vegetables, not fruit. (Nix v. Hedden, 1893)
LQXEP TIL that the first known species of millipede that actually has at least 1,000 legs was only discovered in 2020. Prior to that, the record-holder was a species with only about 750 legs.