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TIL nude means “unclothed” while naked means “unprotected”

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j6Ggn TIL Steve-O was born in London and moved to Brazil, Venezuela, the US, Canada, and back to London by the time he was 13. His first words were in Portuguese and he spoke fluent Spanish.
1PG7 TIL Fiat’s original car factory was designed so that each car would progress upwards story by story as it was assembled until it was finalized at the top, where it would be tested on a rooftop test track.
ANXWo TIL that there is a collection of counterintuitive mathematical objects called "pathological objects" that mathematicians commonly use to disprove conjectures or provide exceptions.
4xp5 TIL that President Harry S. Truman commanded an artillery battery in WW1 in the US Army, and under his command, ‘Battery D did not lose a single man in France.’
v1lb8 TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.