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TIL a British bloke has traveled to every country and territory on earth without taking a single flight.

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BoXk TIL of Berea College, a liberal arts college in Kentucky where tuition is free for all students as long as they partake in work-study. Its mission is to assist high-achieving students with low financial resources regardless of background.
VkN4 TIL that the word “Android” refers only to a male looking robot, for one that looks like a female the proper term is “Gynoid”.
rRp94 TIL of the Noonday Gun - a daily tradition, that has its roots in the grand ambitions and megalomania of the first Tai-pans of the Jardines-Matheson company
9Yklm TIL of Mamihlapinatapai, the "most succinct word and hardest to translate" that means "a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin."
R7dl TIL New employees at Google are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.