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TIL Sesame Street had a 9/11-inspired episode about a fire in Mr. Hooper's store

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W7dDo TIL that a Lousiana term for a kind of fish called a crappie is "sacalait", coming from a French term literally meaning "bag of milk". This isn't because crappies have anything to do with milk, but because the Choctaw word "sakli" got turned into "sac-à-lait" in Cajun French.
JY1Bj TIL as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic flood in the Pacific Northwest created a waterfall with an estimated flow ten times a great as that of all current rivers in the world combined.
KJva TIL: The Millennial Generation is the largest in U.S. history, even larger than the Baby Boom Generation
gMPE8 TIL in 1857, a congressman from New York killed the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia over the attorney’s affair with his wife. He claimed temporary insanity (thanks to his wife’s infidelity), the first time this defense was used in U.S. history. He was acquitted.
kORrE TIL the Pan-American Coffee Bureau coined the phrase 'coffee break' in 1952, and ran a $2 million advertising campaign with the message that a 'coffee break' would give workers 'a needed moment of relaxation along with a caffeine jolt'