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TIL that places that end in -stan mean "places of" in Persian

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KY904 TIL Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was a pilot who was killed in combat in WW1. For propaganda purposes, Germany made a postcard of the dead pilot and his plane, However, this was met with shock by Germans, who were impressed that a president's son died on active duty.
vGRD TIL timezones were created because of “the speed of railroad travel”
mNJR TIL that New York Fries, one of the most popular fries/poutine fast food chains in Canada, ironically doesn’t exist in the U.S.
orDR TIL This year, a gas cloud is going to come too close to a Black Hole in the center of our galaxy and we’ll see it get ripped apart.
QJA5d TIL that during World War II, the US Navy’s Third Fleet and Fifth Fleet were largely composed of the same ships. The change in Fleet numbers was used to designate which Admiral was in command at the time ( Halsey or Spruance) and to make the Japanese think there were twice as many ships.