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TIL that drawing the time on a clock is a test used to check for signs of dementia

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ML4K TIL that in WW1 only two nations did not execute their soldiers for desertion, the United States and Australia.
b8y4 TIL that the person who invented the stop sign, the pedestrian crosswalk, the traffic circle, the one-way street, the taxi stand, and pedestrian safety islands, William Phelps Eno, never learned how to drive.
vj6r TIL pig rectum MIGHT be used in some restaurants as calamari. NPR did a blind taste test and could not tell the difference.
0BrA TIL: Nixon sent champagne and a note saying “Justice ultimately prevails” to Mark Felt after he was pardoned by Reagan. 30 years later, it was revealed Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” who helped bring the Watergate cover-up to light.
epB8J TIL Much of old Lisbon is prefabricated. Following the destruction of the 1755 earthquake these Pombaline buildings (named after the first Marquês de Pombal) are four story wooden framed structures made in parts elsewhere and ensembled into blocks on an exact grid.