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TIL that luffa / loofah are a vegetable that belong to the gourd family!

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BrMek TIL Winston Churchill was nearly killed in a car accident in NY in 1931 after trying to cross the street and look at the wrong side of the road forgetting he was in the US and not in the UK where driving directions are reversed.
BPvW TIL the sperm whale was named after a semi-liquid, waxy substance found in the whale’s head that researchers mistakingly thought was semen
VMeo8 TIL that actor Dorian Harewood (Eightball) in Full Metal Jacket asked for more money when Kubrick inevitably needed more time on the contract. Dorian asked for more money and Kubrick was furious and killed him off -- in the movie.
JYEPl TIL: More than half of yakuza are now over 50 and 10% are over 70 as a result of an ageing population and police crackdowns
m1WPO TIL that in its first appearance at the Olympics, Suriname was represented by a single athlete, a runner who missed his event for arriving late to the heat after being given wrong information about the time.