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TIL: Pornhub has subtitles.
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TIL The US and UK from the eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century considered a country's territorial waters to be three miles out from the land as that was the distance of a cannon shot, i.e. the distance at which a country could defend itself.
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Today I learned that there are 6 ongoing major wars, 15 ongoing (medium-sized?) wars, 20 ongoing smaller conflicts, and 15 ongoing skirmishes/clashes
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TIL “Gotham”, as a nickname for New York City, was coined by Washington Irving in 1807 and literally means “Goat’s Town”.
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TIL that MRI is actually NMRI - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Nuclear is dropped because people would be less likely to trust the technology.
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TIL Galileo Galilei's middle finger is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.