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TIL: The word “set” has 464 definitions… Making it the word with the most variety

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lxB5 TIL the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” - Philo T Farnsworth
vPjaL TIL that during WW2, Germany made margarine from coal
nWVPb TIL in 1893 that the US Supreme Court unanimously decided a tomato is "legally" a vegetable.
y068 TIL that when the Dutch found the Dodo Birds, they named them “Dodaersen”, which translates to “Fat asses”.
Rm68 TIL After Fighter pilot Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. flew the longest interception mission of WWII to shoot down and kill the Admiral responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, he broke radio silence to tell everybody “That son of a bitch will not be dictating any peace terms in the White House”.