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TIL that the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a completely different song in the UK

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9eDD TIL that while the word “thong” comes from the Old English “thwong”, a flexible leather cord, other languages use various euphemisms: in Brazil it is “fio dental” (dental floss); in Bulgarian “prashka” (slingshot); Chinese it is dingziku (丁字褲/丁字裤) which roughly means T-letter pants
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