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TIL A "boneappletea" moment like "escape goat" or "all intensive purposes" is actually called an Eggcorn.

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yQEZw TIL That Top German Nuclear Scientists Expressed Satisfaction They Didn't Work Hard Enough To Beat US To The Bomb
6E9XQ TIL Italy's literacy rate did not cross the 50% threshold until the 20th century.
b6vG0 TIL about the Arecibo message, a radio message consisting of information about humans and Earth that was sent to globular star cluster M13 in 1974, in hopes that extraterrestrial life would receive and decode it.
9YQmm TIL that Neil Armstrong went to the North Pole with Sir Edmund Hillary (first to climb Mt Everest) and other prominent explorers. He said that he was curious to see it from the ground, since he'd only seen it from space.
kJwRe TIL during Zhu Di's rebellion against the Ming dynasty, as he was besieging Jinan and bombarding the city with cannons, the defenders put plaques with the name of Zhu Yuanzhang (Zhu Di's father and the Ming dynasty's first emperor) written on them on the walls, forcing Zhu Di to stop the siege.