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TIL Soap bubbles are just a marketing trick to make you think some soaps clean better than others

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mJDv TIL during the Napoleonic Wars the English Navy inflicted over 3 times as many casualties on the French Navy than the French Navy inflicted on the English Navy, in part because French gun crews fired high to disable enemy masts & rigging while English gun crews fired low into enemy gun crews & hulls
pLXb TIL a wild fox wandered into the United States Supreme Court building in 2002 and eluded capture for more than a day
Br9Er TIL the oldest known zoo dating back to 3500BC was discovered in 2009 at the egyptian city of Nekhen(Hierakonpolis,city of hawks). Collections included hartebeasts, elephants,and leopards.
wX4J TIL New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day
v1laK TIL: The Morris worm has been referred to as the "Great Worm", due to the devastating effect it had on the Internet, both in system downtime and psychological impact on the perception of internet security and reliability. The name was derived from the "Great Worms" of Tolkien: Scatha and Glaurung.