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TIL "URL" means "Uniform Resource Locator"

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DX9P TIL fruit stickers are made out of edible paper. Even the glue is food grade.
KJ8E TIL there’s a series of 70-foot-long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from SF to NYC, all designed to direct aerial traffic. They are from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal government in 1924, coupled with light signals to guide the way.
wLWG1 TIL that if you drop a thimble-full of Bitrex "the most bitter substance in the world" into an Olympic swimming pool and you can detect the bitterness in those two and a half million litres of water.
D1vkJ Today I learned that High German is spoken in South Germany and that Low German is spoken in North Germany.
6Eoa8 TIL in the UK until 1936 the royal Sandringham estate had it's own unique time zone called Sandringham Time (ST) which was set 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)