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TIL that road gritters (road salters) in Scotland have names like ‘Gritty Gritty Bang Bang’ and ‘Sir Salter Scott’ and you can track them live...

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rR7Gw TIL after portraying a teacher who goes on to be president of Ukraine on T.V., actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy would then go on to become president of Ukraine.
y7ke Today I learned Tom and Jerry cartoons won seven Oscars, and were nominated for six more.
Zp4jR Today I learned that the United States committed over 550,000 troops to the Vietnam War and suffered over 58,000 casualties.
MvL0 TIL that Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), originally created the temperature scale Celsius with the freezing point of water being 100° and boiling point being 0°. Eventually after Anders Celsius died, scientists changed the scale to the way we know it today.
eMN5 TIL: in 2012 a proposal was made in the Netherlands to create legal, VIRTUAL child pornography to help satisfy pedophiles’ needs and hopefully make them less likely to act out their fantasies.