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TIL Nigeria has Over 250 Ethnic groups and 500 languages.

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xV76k TIL “Tater Tot” is trademarked by a company called Ore-Ida and were created from using leftover scraps from slicing French fries.
Y7MQW TIL that “under the weather,” meaning, feeling ill, is from sailors. On the high seas when the wind blow hard and rough water crewmen would go below deck and down to their cabins in order to ride out the storm to avoid seasickness. They literally retreat to a location “under the weather"
XEg1j TIL of the sport of Extreme Ironing. Exponents take ironing boards to extreme locations and iron garments there. Performances have taken place while doing activities such as skiing, surfboarding, diving and marathon running. Two extreme ironers ironed a Union Jack above Everest base camp in 2003.
lJp5 TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
D19ap TIL that entertainer Liberace was awarded £8,000 when he won a lawsuit against a British journalist who had described him as 'fruit flavoured'. It was at the time the largest libel settlement in British legal history. Liberace denied he was gay.