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TIL the body of water that includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is known to German oceanographers as the American Mediterranean Sea

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78D8X TIL helicopters can trigger lightning strikes
9w8VB TIL that most of the elite archers use unanticipated (surprise) release of an arrow. Because it allows the arrow to depart the bow before brain can bring the impact bracing factor into play. Which is a natural reflex like putting out an arm to compensate for an impending fall or simple flinching.
XEE1E TIL in 1152 King Stephen of England threatened to launch the child of a rebellious noble from a trebuchet. He didn't and that child grew up to be William Marshall, called "the best knight who ever lived."
Yp5wP TIL that the term "Great Depression" was first coined in the 1870's during an economic crisis known as the Panic of 1873.
QJ1lL TIL that the thick sheet you find at the foot of hotel beds are known as beds scarves and are meant to keep the bed clean if someone lies down with their shoes still on