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TIL That London has a larger population than Scotland

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QJPLa TIL: In the Star Trek universe, Enterprise is called Enterprise because of a line of space ships with that name starting with one of the first manned spaceships from Earth. In real life, the first space shuttle was called Enterprise because of Star Trek.
lk7a TIL Knit spelled backwards is tink. In the knitting community to ‘tink’ is to knit backwards stitch by stitch. To go back a whole row is to ‘rip it’ and to rip the entire work (rip it rip it) is ‘frogging.’
m1x4x TIL that actor Chuck Lamb became famous for playing the role of dead bodies in film and television
OG7GX TIL that before Charles Fisk started the successful C.B. Fisk organ company, he had unknowingly built equipment Fat Man atomic bomb during World War II.
v1eR TIL Kris Kristofferson was a Golden Gloves boxer, a Rhodes Scholar, a military Captain, a West Point professor, and landed a helicopter in Johnny Cash’s yard to hand him music that became song of the year, ultimately going ono a successful music career, and then onto Hollywood to make movies.