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TIL the last four months are named for being the 7th (Septem-), 8th (Octo-), 9th (Novem-), and 10th (Decem-) months in the old 10 month Roman calendar

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loj9V TIL only four people have been at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, called the Challenger Deep (about 11000 meters or 36000ft down). For reference, 12 people have walked on the Moon.
b0Zj TIL: For every 400 movies made in Hollywood, there are 11,000 pornos made [Link is a SFW Ted Talk]
oe88 TIL that the trajectory of the first American manned spaceflight was calculated by an African-American woman. She was so good at computations that she was asked to check the work of the computers when they were first used by NASA to calculate John Glenn’s flight path.
e091J TIL Lush owns the patent for bubble bars. [15:55]
5GZr TIL if Pinocchio were to say “My nose will grow now”, it will create a paradox called the Pinocchio’s paradox.