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TIL, that Britain is the fattest nation in Europe.

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JYrJl TIL that Napoleon used to fight with one of his classmates at the Military Academy of Paris (Sidney Smith). Then at 1799 during the Siege of Acre Sidney Smith meet Napoleon again but now in battlefield, where Napoleon was defeated.
6A0l TIL that the term “debugging” actually originated, and was popularized by Grace Hopper when her associates discovered and removed an actual moth that was stuck inside a relay of the Harvard Mark II, impeding its performance.
Mwpm TIL Star Wars the Force Awakens spent $50M more on advertising and trailers ($250M) than they did on production ($200M)
R7Vg1 TIL that in 1971, a US man named Gerald Mayo filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Pennsylvania. He was suing Satan, for making him fall down. The judge rejected "Mayo v Satan", pointing out that Mayo did not provide appropriate directions for the US Marshals to serve the summons to Satan.
0wXYp TIL I learned why we can “smell metals” when they don’t have a significant vapour pressure, sublimating etc. We smell the reaction of oils in our skin with the metal, producing detectable byproducts such as ketones, not the metal itself.