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TIL the majority of Lamborghini models are named after Spanish words and 3 Lamborghini models have been named in honour of matador-killing fighting bulls

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AD8gw TIL of a man in England was jailed for the manslaughter of his ex-girlfriend, after she came to his home with an 8 inch kitchen knife in her handbag, that she fell on after he pushed her during an ensuing argument
naVP TIL Arya Stark from Game of Thrones was Maisie Williams’ first role in anything
WkY9 TIL that our universe isn’t old enough for any of our red dwarf stars to have become blue dwarfs yet. So blue dwarfs are still theoretical.
j6Pnp TIL: The massive, multinational tableware company Oneida started in 1848 as a sex cult that invented the term "free love" and featured, among other things, middle-aged women acting as sexual mentors to adolescent boys and a focus on men withholding their orgasm during intercourse (coitus reservatus)
Y7alP TIL any calculation requiring more than 10^120 bits can not be calculated as the universe has not existed long enough to provide time enough to resolve it, even assuming almost instantaneous information transmission