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TIL the name “Africa” does not come from any African language. It is Latin and derives from “Afri”, a Roman term for the inhabitants of North Africa.

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N7wxQ TIL that the longest tunnel in the world is the aqueduct that takes water from upstate New York to Manhattan. It is 13.5 feet wide and 85 miles long.
VM5AZ TIL a company once redirected all attempts to a non-registered domains to their own page, supposedly for profit. This also messed up with emails sent to non-existing domains for a while.
M7ymW TIL in November 1970 an airplane carrying the Marshall University football team (plus coaches and a few other people) crashed into a mountaintop outside the Huntington WV airport, killing all 75 people on board. It is considered the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history.
GYRw4 TIL Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations.
WkJo4 TIL that the Senate Majority Leader does not have any Constitutional power to block a bill on their own; rather, the practice began in the 1920s and is only continues as it’s seen as a “custom” of the Senate.