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TIL: Swedes use the term 'Curling Parents' for overprotective parents who - as in the ice game - sweep out all trouble in front of their kids

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GYaZE TIL mangoes can increase and prolong a cannabis high
ADJn7 TIL that a cat called Minou, mascot of the ‘16-34 ULM Club’ in French Guiana, took an unexpected ride on the wing of an open-air plane. The pilot guided the craft back to the ground as the kitty hung on. Video in article. The cat was safe.
Nb0J TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s interest in spiritualism cost him a friendship with Harry Houdini. When Houdini showed Doyle that he could reproduce the so-called mystic powers of mediums, Doyle was unconvinced, and instead, believed that Houdini himself was a psychic.
OGn9L TIL that before it was "Donner and Blitzen," it was "Donder and Blitzen," and before that it was "Dunder and Blixem," which is colloquial New York Dutch meaning "Thunder and Lightning."
78OJb TIL that merchandise of this “Shmoo” character made the 1948 equivalent of 305 million dollars, he replaced Mickey Mouse as the face of the Children’s Saving Bond, and also had a crossover with the Flintstones. He was everywhere in the old days but inexplicably disappeared after the 70s or so.