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TIL the opposite of warmth is coolth

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MePlA TIL There is a tiny residential street in UK famous for its name: "Butt Hole Road"
EgPE0 TIL tobacco enemas were once used to resuscitate drowning victims, as well as to treat an array of maladies, including headaches, hernias, respiratory ailments, and abdominal cramps. This gave rise to the phrase "blowing smoke up (one's) ass."
xvok TIL that whenever German victories were announced on the radio in occupied Denmark, the Danish Resistance would cut into the broadcast and play “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess.
kgvd TIL a stenographer (or court reporter) types phonetically using a 22-keyed unmarked keyboard at 200+ WPM and 98.5% accuracy.
dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.