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TIL That England has scorpions.

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6868 TIL that after a year of people using NYC’s bikeshare program, riders have gone 14,700,000 mi. and none of them has died.
4keWN TIL While the Confederacy used the strongest cipher available during the Civil War, the Vigenère cipher, the Union consistently cracked it. This was because the Confederates only ever used three key phrases: "Manchester Bluff", "Complete Victory" and, as the war came to a close, "Come Retribution".
yQBva TIL The gravity constant, G was not known in Newton’s time, meaning the masses of the planets could not be directly computed. Newton got around this issue by expressing the masses of planets in terms of the mass of the sun
mn9o TIL that the United Kingdom and Portugal have the oldest alliance and peace treaty in the world that is still in force — with the earliest treaty dating back to the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373.
l7jpB TIL as ar back as the 12th Century, the Bishop of Winchester was entrusted to oversee the brothels under his domain and the church began to license and tax brothels as a source of revenue. Some brothels were even directly controlled by the bishop.