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TIL Twitter's logo is named "Larry" in honor of NBA legend Larry Bird

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jN55X TIL the Bay of Pigs in Cuba is called "Bahía de Cochinos" in Spanish, cochino being a common fish in the area. Cochino can also be used as an insult in Cuban Spanish very similarly to how "pig" is used as an insult in English, leading to the mistranslation.
7r1rO TIL in the Czech Republic there are remains of huts made from mammoth bones
Gg8E TIL Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to make meth by the DEA in preparation for his role in Breaking Bad
5YjQ9 TIL that sentences with the sole purpose of annoying the reader exist and are called "garden path sentences". They make you go back and read the sentence again, an example is: "The old man the boat"
nJVr TIL Eric Clapton said some very racist things. “This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want f*****g wogs living next to me.”