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TIL that there is a verse in Dante’s Inferno that has no translation and no one knows what it means.

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M7PxB Today I learned that WD-40 stands for Water Displacing oil number 40!
PYb1Z TIL that the first eBook was created by Michael S. Hart in 1971, while he was a student at the University of Illinois. He typed the entire text of the Declaration of Independence onto a computer and made it available for others to download.
QJXod TIL Star Destroyer models were illuminated by 100,000 hand wired strands of fiber optics in the original Star Wars trilogy. For the Super Star Destroyer, they switched to brass etching by hand to increase the number to 250,000.
ogr8 TIL A Pyrrhic victory is one in which the victor incurs such damage on the path to victory that the outcome is no better than defeat.
6EZQW TIL that the original 82nd Airborne Division of WWI was nicknamed the "All-American" Division because at least one of all its soldiers were from one of the then recognized 48 states of the country