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TIL Quarantine comes from the Latin word for 40, which was the number of a days a ship had to wait to dock because of the plague…

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VM4dZ TIL in 1991, Escobar invited Maradona to play football with him in luxurious prison- La Catedral. It was followed up with a lavish party.
a1QM TIL men’s tennis players use a different type of tennis ball than women
Z84na TIL: Canada has its own particular version of The Onion called “The Beaverton”
OgR6 TIL that during WWII, the Japanese invaded Alaska, and more Americans were killed or wounded defending Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.
GYAk7 TIL the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two others are entombed under 75 feet of ice within the Ross Ice Shelf and will reach the ocean in 275 years, perhaps floating away in an iceberg.