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TIL: The largest known impact crater in the USA is under the Chesapeake Bay

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VMrKG TIL: Historically, monarchs in East Asia would use two alternative titles: internally they claimed to be “emperors”, but in dealing with China they called themselves “kings” to avoid offending the Chinese.
618J TIL that on September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed.
xVeK0 TIL that there are 7000 languages, and your cognitive language can vastly affect your skills as a human. For instance, some African languages use the direction they are heading (NSEW) as “hello” and literally have no word for left or right. These people stay oriented exponentially better than others
oP6A TIL While Cambridge was closed due to the Bubonic Plague, Sir Isaac Newton invented Calculus over the course of 18 months
lvw5 TIL There is a rare Japanese game on the PS1 called LSD: Dream Emulator