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TIL sailors had crossed the Equator by 425BC and reported they’d seen the Sun switch sides in the heavens. Writers like Herodotus thought they were making it up

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6EkA8 TIL: while Austria derives its name from the Germanic for East, Australia gets its name from the latin for South
D7xV TIL that during the 1904 Summer Olympics Marathon, a Cuban postman who arrived last minute came in 4th despite running in street clothes that he cut into shorts and falling ill after eating rotten apples during a break he took in an orchard.
J1vRk TIL Ships will store and purposefully dump oil into the ocean to create calm seas around them, called storm oil
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