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TIL The unit of measurement for buttons dates back to the 9th century. Its called a ligne, and is abbreviated as an L.

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9BmM TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote a month before he died that he had some doubts about Jesus’ divinity. Yet he didn’t spend too much time thinking about it, writing, “I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble”.
pBjA TIL there was an early 70’s #1 Italian song written entirely in english gibberish to mimic what english sounds like to a non-english speaker
X0MQQ TIL when a witness refuses to answer a question because the answer may incriminate him, the judge may force him to answer anyway if he believes the answer actually would not incriminate him.
JY8el TIL The tongue twister 'She Sells Seashells' is actually about Mary Anning, a geologist who in 1823 got people talking about extinction, geologic ages, and evolution 36 years before Charles Darwin wrote 'The Origin Of Species'. Darwin later wrote about Anning's accomplishments in 1856.
b9Gn0 TIL that on April 1st, 1991, a thief stole a box from the trunk of a car in New York City and discovered six partial human heads with the backs of the skulls cut away. They turned out to be specimens for study at an infirmary and not a strange April Fools' prank.