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Bgw9K TIL that Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland because the first European colonists there were Scottish. So New England is next to New Scotland.
mxDgp TIL cats sleep a lot to get ready for their next hunting spree.
VMmaQ TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he and his friend Paul Allen would hack the scheduling system so that Gates was the only boy in classes full of girls.
KYJPG TIL Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every Academy Award it was nominated for. With 11 wins, it made history as the highest clean sweep in Oscars history.
5Y7Xp TIL of Oak Ridge, a city built in the U.S. in 1942. 100,000 people lived and worked there doing very specific tasks, most of whom with no idea of what they were working towards. In 1945 they saw news reports of the atomic bombings of Japan and realised they’d been working on the bombs all along