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TIL that the word "mortgage" literally means "death-pledge" in French

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kOd47 TIL about Robert Landsberg, a photographer who upon realisation that he is going to die in the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event.
dD4Md TIL that cicadas are the world’s loudest insects; their singing can be as loud as 100 decibels
5YeGB TIL That the new £5 note that was recently created can play vinyl records when you press the corner into the groves of the vinyl.
m4Rp TIL in 1914 Henry Ford doubled his worker’s wages out of pocket, causing wages to rise competitively nation wide. He profited as sales increased now that many more Americans could afford his Model T.
kLEB TIL that only two of the 185 countries in the International Labour Organization do not have laws mandating parental leave- the United States, and Papua New Guinea.