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TIL a company called What3Words created a grid of 54 trillion 3x3 meter squares given a 3 word address designation covering the globe. It’s used as a work around for parts of the world with tricky or no addresses and can be used to specify which door in a building a package should be sent to.

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R7MB4 TIL: Joseph Smith's wife threatened to practice polygamy until a timely and convenient commandment specifically naming her came from God.
gMwKy TIL In 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing “minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which…enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases.” The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.
wG7M TIL that in 1773 a man named Wolraad Woltemade saved 14 people stranded on a sinking ship by riding his horse, Vonk, out into the water to fetch them. Upon reaching the ship the seventh time the horse was exhausted. Wolraad, Vonk and those clinging onto him all drowned.
Ypj5B TIL Chinese Checkers is an American named adaptation of a German game that originated in Britain.
NXX86 TIL that a snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but it can have over 25,000 teeth .