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TIL the popular programming language "Python" is named after the comedy group "Monty Python"

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D1vPD TIL about the Overton window, which defines what political ideas the mainstream sees as radical according to what they're used to, even if they are not in fact radical.
AVkx TIL There’s a rule in soccer/football that says if a player kicks the ball into his own goal on a direct free-kick, the opposing team is awarded a corner kick and not a goal
JOkV TIL Pluto is smaller than Russia
mxk0p TIL that In 1961 Ham the chimpanzee was successfully launched into space which technically means that chimpanzees own the achievement of first Hominid in space.
1aJlr TIL of the White Rose which was a non-violent Nazi resistance group made of college students and a professor. It started by releasing pamphlets against the Nazi Party and ended with the execution of 6 students and the professor.