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p8dJQ TIL Chinese goverment banned Taylor Swift's merchandise during her 1989 tour, because the reference to that year conjured images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Also, Swift's initials. T. S., printed on some of her merch, happen to be initials for Tiananmen Square
6EMW8 TIL: Grindr, a popular gay dating app, was owned by the Chinese.
xVX8b TIL there is a name for such common errors as writing "tow the line" instead of "toe the line." The word eggcorn was coined when a linguist noted a woman who used that word instead of "acorn" and realized there was no word for the general phenomenon.
nWDgr TIL ancient British law says any man who sleeps with the Princess Royal before marriage commits high treason. This is a lifetime title bestowed, not inherited, by the monarch on their eldest daughter. The eldest daughter of a new monarch must wait until the previous holder dies, to be granted it.
pgYO TIL Mark Twain had a near fatal heart attack in 1898 after watching a belly dancer’s routine.