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TIL that Brazil once tried to sell an aircraft carrier on eBay

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69ojW TIL that the city center of Lyallpur (today's Faisalabad, Pakistan) was designed by the British to imitate the Union Jack, with eight roads radiating from a large clock tower (Ghenta Ghar) in the centre of eight separate bazaars
m1PdY TIL the "Millennial Pause" is a phenomenon where generations older than Gen Zs tend to pause before speaking when a camera begins recording.
RxQ TIL “TASER” is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle”.
vQ9r TIL of Patricia Demauro who in May 23rd 2009 rolled a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven. Odds of that is 1 in 1.56 trillion.
4XWK5 TIL that in languages that read from left to right, the left hand page and the right hand page have names- Verso and Recto, respectively.