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TIL about the lugger, "Greyhound" - a modern 3 masted lugger ferrying cargo between european ports under full/almost-full sail power.

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YB1P TIL in 2005 the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine. Later, in 2008, a Finnish pizza won an international pizza contest coming first before Italy in second and Australia in third. The name of the first place pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi”.
mxPlo TIL During the influenze pandemic of 1918-1920, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness in Germany, the UK, France, and the US. Papers were free to report the effects in Spain, giving a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit, giving rise to the name "Spanish flu".
QJ8o9 TIL that the earliest written record of the Finnish language is someone saying "I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able".
d8J7 TIL a man was sentenced to life in prison for lending his car to a friend who murdered someone during a burglary
x6aab TIL: The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass (in a 200-pound adult, that’s 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria), but play a vital role in human health.