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TIL dick meant ‘a person of questionable character’ long before it was a slang word for the penis

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N7bR1 TIL - The inventor of the shiftless and seemless CVT (continuously variable transmission) was in fact Leonardo Da Vinci.
WkQlX TIL coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Rome where collected by an Italian man for 34 years. Doing this 6 days a week; making sometimes as much as $1000 for a 15 minutes splash. He started fishing the fountain in 1968.
v189B TIL "I Get Around" was released as a single in May 1964 along with "Don't Worry Baby" as its B-side and became the Beach Boy's first number-one charting song in the United States.
B9Zb [TIL] That in addition Fire Department red and Police red and blue, some states reserve purple lights expressly for funeral procession escort vehicles.
Md8W TIL : Quotation marks differ based on the language “english”, «french», „german“ or »german«, ”swedish”, …