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xZXg TIL that French toast is also known as German toast or Spanish toast
D1bmP TIL: Light is measured in units called foot candles. One footcandle (ft-c) is the amount of light cast by a candle on a white surface 1 foot away in a completely dark room.
ADRMl TIL Eleven and Twelve do not follow the teen pattern because they come from Old English terms that mean "one left after ten" and "two left after ten," or "ain-lif" and "twa-lif," due to the fact that these numbers were used commonly, unlike the other teens, and therefore developed much earlier.
6b5w TIL that when sailors in the Navy pass over the equator for the first time, there is a “Crossing the Line” ceremony and the sailors receive the title “Shellbacks” and “Sons of Neptune.” They get a certificate and its “signed” by Davy Jones and Neptune.
8e6DV TIL the longest marathon run lasted 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds: Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese runner, entered the race in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. He left the course because of exhaustion, silently returned to Japan, became a teacher, only resume the race in 1967.