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TIL that turtledoves are called "turtle" because of their Latin name: streptopelia turtur

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4XoXR TIL: A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923. By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks
MeVj0 TIL of Brian Wells a pizza delivery man who was forced to rob a bank with an explosive device around his neck which led to his death as he ran out of time by being pulled over by the state police
b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
KYgaG TIL Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been defined in a variety of ways by MyPerfectWords.
0Vr5 Today I learned no NBA player has ever been born in Vermont