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TIL: Moon looks reversed from Australia

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OG5kL TIL Julius Caesar was believed to have almost superhuman multitasking skills, and was effective at reading, writing and dictating (or listening) simultaneously.
1EvP TIL Ontario employs a police interrogator so effective, the running joke is “if you’re under questioning and Jim Smyth walks in, don’t make any appointments for the next 25 years”. His trick: offering coffee and a sympathetic ear.
E1kMX TIL Until the late 19th century, most men in Japan wore pocketless kimonos, which offered no place to keep belongings. Netsuke (small carved statues, working as anchors)(meaning “to attach the root”) allowed them to securely fasten hanging pouches (sagemono) and boxes (inro) to a kimono sash (obi).
8ekbZ TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon.
agw0 TIL we have a photograph of a man who fought in the Revolutionary War