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TIL that 'GropeCunt Lane' was a popular English street name in the middle ages, and was named so because of the level of prostitution going on within that particular area

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4XV5g TIL an island was christened a war ship by the British Navy during a French blockade. The HMS Diamond Rock was fortified with cannons and spent 17 months hammering any passing French ships, and to this day anyone in the British Navy is required to salute the rock when they pass it.
yb4M TIL despite not turning a profit, Reddit plans to donate 10% of its ad revenue to non-profit organizations this year.
VaMk TIL treadmills were originally a punishment used to harness human power on a giant wheel used to grind grains; hence the name “treadmill.”
wLDJ1 TIL a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after the takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.
PKEZ TIL acronyms are said like words, while initialisms are individual letters. For example, NATO is an acronym and FBI is an initialism.