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TIL that the Archbishop of Canterbury has the legal authority to award academic degrees under the Ecclesiastical Licenses Act, 1533.

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VMJ8G TIL of a traffic light in United States that is deliberately upside down - In 1920's the Irish community at Tipperary Hill, Syracuse didn't like that the "British" red appeared above the "Irish" green on the light and kept vandalizing it until New York State was convinced to keep it green over red.
9nOX TIL that about 18% of California’s irrigation water is used to farm Alfalfa - a quarter of which is exported to places like China, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
wQ9E TIL: A solar power plant in the Mohave Desert uses five square miles of mirrors to concentrate sunbeams on one central tower. It also incinerates about 6,000 birds a year.
R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.
E5y7 TIL The man who invented aikido was a samurai who became a pacifist & refused to fight for Japanese imperialism. He then became a hermit, lived on a mountain sitting under a tree.