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TIL that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. It is the smallest unit of time ever measured.

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W7WL TIL Peta condemned a rat killing scene in the famous war shooter game Battlefield 3, by stating it can have, “a brutalising effect on the young male target audience.”
p8bL4 TIL of Japanese General and Poet, Nogi Maresuke, who took Port Arthur twice - from China (1894) and Russian (1904), sought permission from the emperor to kill himself as felt he lost too many soldiers in battle, was refused, so waited eight years and committed suicide right after the emperor died.
mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.
neAPP TIL according to the payroll records of the French monasteries, a significant minority of the names were female. The medieval church was sexist, but women as well as men built the cathedrals.
P1pog TIL what whitewashing actually means and that it has nothing to do with race or skin-color