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TIL one in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s

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gr6eX TIL about the PL-12 Airtruk. The world's ugliest airplane.
NXgW1 TIL Homer Simpson's official job title at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is "Nuclear Safety Inspector" but he has also had at least 188 different jobs in the first 400 episodes.
GL7G TIL Tim Russ aka Star Treks Lt Tuvok was also the trooper in Spaceballs with the famous line “We aint found shit”
xVGY7 TIL that the letter "thorn", and the pronunciation was like the modern "th". It was used in the english language, evolving through out time to look like the letter "y"! So when you see "Ye old tavern" it's actually The Old Tavern!
VMNvB TIL the capital of Tajikistan is named Dushanbe, which literally translates to “Monday.” It was also briefly named Stalinabad (“Stalin’s Paradise”) during the reign of the USSR.