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TIL: that The word “companion”, from the Latin word, com meaning “with” and panis meaning “bread”.

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DQ4WJ TIL Only ten U.S. states do not have a commercially navigable waterway that connects to the ocean.
GYlAg TIL that the Statue of Liberty cost the French an estimated $250,000 (more than $5.5 million in today’s money). The money came from fundraising efforts such as auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches, both in Europe and the U.S.
0wkWR TIL of Kevin Carter. A member of the Bang-Bang Club, photographers who chronicled apartheid-­era South Africa. He took the “starving child and vulture” pic. He won the Pulitzer for the pic and soon after took his life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger & pain.”
EJB0 TIL That cat whiskers are roughly the width of a cats body because they provide cats with a natural measuring stick, so they can “measure” whether they’ll fit into a space before an attempt. Whiskers are also capable of detecting changes in wind direction, which allows cats to navigate in darkness.
xVd7g TIL about HD 189733b, a blue planet the size of Jupiter about 63 lightyears away from Earth. The surface temperature is a staggering 1000°C, wind speeds average at around 7000 kilometers per hour, and it rains molten glass... sideways.