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TIL: fear of food touching another food is called brumotactillophobia

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VBl8k TIL that the founder of Lululemon specifically came up with a brand name that has three L’s because the sound does not exist in Japanese phonetics: "It's funny to watch them try and say it”
opBA TIL there is a mineral called “Cummingtonite” named after its place of discovery: Cummington, Massachusetts
DM7V TIL when Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, French soldiers cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, they would have to climb hundreds of stairs to get to the top.
GVdj TIL the US convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war during WW2 and sentenced them to death
KYDYB TIL that the sun loses 4.4 million tons of mass per second due to the light that it emits.