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TIL the name of Nottingham is Anglo-Saxon in origin. A Saxon chieftain named Snot ruled an area known as Snotingaham in Old English

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mwpO TIL Israel has a long history of passing along secret US Military technology to China.
pQdp TIL that in 2013, someone in Chicago placed a $600 million trade 2 milliseconds after the Fed publicly announced they wouldn’t slow bond purchases. The markets skyrocketed and the trader made lots of money. There was one problem though. It would have taken 7 milliseconds for light to get to Chicago.
6B7Z TIL the US armed forces standard issue pistol uses the 9X19mm Parabellum cartridge which is named after the Latin phrase “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you seek peace, prepare for war).
wL4b8 TIL the phenomenon of wind throb from an open car window is called Helmholtz resonance, and is the same thing occurring when you blow across an open bottle to produce a tone.
d848 TIL cats may have been domesticated 12,000 years because in the shift from hunter/gatherers to agricultural civ, the influx of mice led to wild cats coming to live near their prey.