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TIL that a ‘second’ on a clock is called that way because it is the second division of an hour in 60 increments (the first being minutes)

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bBVN TIL that beer was invented in Iran 7000 years ago. Today, it’s outlawed there.
eyj4 TIL in 2012, the White House responded to a petition to have a Death Star built by stating that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets” and that it would not fund a weapon “with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship”.
LkV9P TIL that during the Cold War, USA considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” into USSR, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
Vd6Z TIL: SHGb02+14a is a radio signal source that we have received 3 times, from an area of space with no stars within 1000 light years that we have no explanations for.
b6yo0 TIL David Koresh, leader of religious cult Branch Davidians, was infatuated with American pop singer Madonna and claimed that God himself sent Madonna to Earth for him.