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TIL that Liverpool was once the “Second City of The British Empire” and for periods in the 19th century its wealth even eclipsed that of London.

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167Z8 TIL Reno, Nevada is named after the Father of the man who invented the first working escalator
N7JEe TIL: To identify the pilots guilty of "buzzing" (doing dangerously low-altitude fly-bys) of bases or populated areas, for decades many US military planes were marked with short unique I.D. codes painted-on with large letters. Such marks (different from serial numbers) came to be called BUZZ NUMBERs.
wBdW TIL Professor David Nutt intends to bring a safer, hangover-free version of alcohol called Alcosynth into the market
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