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TIL it’s considered belittling and insulting to refer to Ukraine as “The” Ukraine.

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ALww TIL In the first Deus Ex game the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are absent due to memory limitations. The explanation is that they were destroyed in a terrorist attack. A year after the game’s initial release, the real Twin Towers were destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
wLRQW TIL that Herbert Hoover's last known written words were a get well message to his friend Harry Truman, six days before his death, after he heard that Truman had sustained injuries from slipping in a bathroom.
PYdXn TIL some scientists think our universe is formed through the process of 'quantum annealing' - more commonly known as a type of quantum computing
lo7nG TIL Television commercials send ultrasonic signals to electronic devices that are used to link the owner to TV viewing habits and to tie multiple devices to one owner.
oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...