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TIL Isaac Newton developed nearly all his best-known theories during an impromptu "gap year," while Cambridge University was closed due to plague.

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wo61M TIL about Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village where Nazi troops massacred its 643 inhabitants as collective punishment for Résistance activity. Women and children were burned alive in a church, while men were taken to barns, shot in the legs and set on fire as well.
ANMYw TIL about Saturn's Hexagon - Larger in diameter than the Earth
OoPAY TIL a “son of a gun” used to mean a child born on a a naval ship of uncertain paternity (ie a soldier’s bastard).
d85LE TIL In 1969 Mister Rogers' and Officer Clemmons of "Mister Rogers' neighborhood" shared a pool in episode 1065 . This marked the first time in TV history an African American was portrayed swimming with a White. Clemmons hoped "the world would change" after the airing of the episode
MmmW TIL Amazon warehouses use a chaotic storage system where products are not stored by what they are, but rather by where in the warehouse they can best fit.