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TIL that the word ‘quite’ means 'very’ in American English, but means 'fairly’ in British English.

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QJApp TIL a Chinese woman was bitten by a Pit viper 3 months after stuffing the snake into a bottle of wine, in order to make a traditional Chinese medicine called Snake Wine. She opened the bottle to drink some after suffering from joint pain, the snake escaped, biting her in the process.
MvpA TIL that duct tape has been brought on every NASA mission since the sixties and saved the lives of everyone aboard the Apollo 13
Wk7PB TIL that between 5 and 6 million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed, and the entire Mediterranean Sea evaporated within 1000 years, leaving behind a salty desert.
9YwVG TIL that Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran was well-known for calling the US the "Great Satan". He also called the Soviet Union the "Lesser Satan" and Israel "Little Satan".
0wad5 TIL that Spain won basketball gold at the 2000 Paralympics but most of the team wasn't disabled. The coach asked the team to slow their scoring because they were playing too well. When journalists became suspicious, they were encouraged to grow beards and wear hats so as not to be recognisable.