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TIL: There have been 4x more people who have been to the moon than have been in the bottom of Marianas Trench

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xKVb TIL Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, invented the girls’ name Vanessa.
Oo00L TIL that the Python programming language wasn't named after the snake. It was named after Monty Python, because the creator was reading Monty Python scripts when he implemented the language.
8el7Z TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
Ooeeg TIL a freight train can move 1 ton of material approximately 500 miles using 1 gallon of diesel fuel (on average).