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TIL “vegetable” is a culinary term, not a botanical term.
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TIL that in the business environment, you’re supposed to sign with blue ink and not black because the blue ink represents the “original” document, when black ink represents the “copy.”
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TIL Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.
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TIL that Pope John Paul II is considered to have begun the chain of events which saw the collapse of Communism in Europe, thanks to his trip to Poland in 1979.
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TIL Yellow and red cards in football were invented in 1966 by Ken Aston, an English referee, who was frustrated due to the language barrier during the World Cup. Driving down Kensington High Street, he took a look at the traffic lights and found them a useful metaphor for caution and stopping play.
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TIL that the longest word in the world is the protein that gives the springiness to your muscles. The name has over 189,000 letters and would take over 5 hours to read. It is also known as ‘Titin’.