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TIL of CANZUK, a proposed supranational alliance comprising of Canada, Australia, New Zealand & the UK

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woPGP TIL that before the discovery of electricity, electric rays were called "torpedo", from Latin "torpidus" meaning 'numb' or 'paralysed'. Torpedoes as weapons were later named after these animals.
P1LjJ TIL: About Earth trojans. Two asteroids that share our orbit, leading us around the sun.
j6naN TIL due to the harshness of the communist Chinese government crackdown following the Tiananmen Square massacre, photos of the famous Tank Man needed to be protected from the authorities, such as by smuggling a roll of film out of the country in a box of tea, and hiding one roll in a toilet tank.
691jX TIL 19-year-old Matilda Scheurer, a Victorian-era factory worker, died after regular exposure to Scheele's Green, a popular arsenic-based dye used in various common items at the time. She died after allegedly vomiting green, while the whites of her eyes and her fingernails turned green.
XE9mj TIL BBW is actually Big /Beautiful/ Woman, made up by a fashion company.