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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL that this # is an "octothorpe" (which can also be spelled "octothorp").

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TIL the 50-Star American Flag Began as a High School Project—and It Only Got a B

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TIL the small pocket on jeans is actually called a watch pocket because it was originally intended as a safe place for men to store their pocket watches.

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TIL peanuts are actually considered legumes. While real nuts grow on trees, peanuts grow in pods that mature underground; other types of legumes, such as lentils and peas, also grow beneath the surface. Additional nut frauds include cashews, walnuts, pistachios, and almonds.

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TIL Scotland has more than 400 words and expressions for snow. Academics have officially logged 421 terms - including "snaw" (snow), "sneesl" (to begin to rain or snow) and "skelf" (a large snowflake).

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TIL Beefalo, also referred to as cattalo or the Canadian hybrid, are a fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (Bos taurus), usually a male in managed breeding programs, and the American bison (Bison bison), usually a female in managed breeding programs.

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TIL McDonald's attempted to make their menu more nutritious by designing broccoli that tasted like bubble gum. Kids were confused by the taste. The bubble gum flavored broccoli was a failure.

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TIL Chris P. Bacon, a pig, was born with malformed hind legs. Not able to use these legs, he has had to compensate by lifting his behind off of the ground and balancing on his forelimbs.

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TIL you can download instructables as pdf without any verifciation of being a student.

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TIL: Aparently Aziz Ansari has a new NetFlix special on Wokeness, directed by Spike Jonze

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TIL koalas have human-like fingerprints

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TIL some people can you hear the difference between hot and cold.

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TIL there are 50 states and 25 letters and there’s only one letter that’s not in any U.S. state name.

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TIL Spam's basic ingredients are pork with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch (as a binder), sugar, and sodium nitrite (as a preservative). Natural gelatin is formed during cooking in its tins on the production line.

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TIL in the early morning hours on the day of his death, John Belushi was visited separately by friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

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TIL Don Rickles befriended mobster "Crazy" Joe Gallo following performance at Copacabana. Gallo, who he ribbed mercilessly despite being warned not to do so, accepted ribbings in good humor and invited him to Umberto's Clam House. Rickles declined. That night, a gunfight erupted killing Gallo.

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Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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TIL actor Tony Randall maintained that any publicity an actor generates should be about his work, not himself. "The public knows only one thing about me: I don't smoke."

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TIL the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking occurring in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the evening of November 22, 1987, involving at least two unknown individuals.

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TIL of Agis IV, a Spartan king who tried to fix the economy with immigrants

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TIL that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps.

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TIL Norsemen discovered North America around 1000 AD and called it Vinland

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TIL Cambodia uses landmine-hunting rats specially trained to sniff out and detect TNT explosives inside landmines and unexploded bombs.

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TIL there's not one specific chemical that gives bacon its smell -- it's the combination of 150 different compounds that create the heavenly smell.

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TIL genetic testing confirmed the existence of polar bear-grizzly bear hybrids, also known as ‘grolar bears’ or ‘pizzly bears’.

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