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TIL Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word 'nimrod' into an insult because the audience failed to get a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter

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X0vYj TIL about the Cagots, a group persecuted in France and Spain for nearly 1,000 years. Despite having no distinct language, race, religion, culture or physical traits than people around them, they faced social segregation and prejudice. Their exclusion is one of history's lesser known injustices.
x6yog TIL that in 1951 Koreans were banned from the Boston marathon
p8BDZ TIL In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went to the North Pole together.
R5B44 TIL Alitalia, an Italian airline, had only one year of profit between founding in 1941 and demise in 2021
jNpPa TIL that the character Guinan in Star Trek:TNG, played by Whoopi Goldberg, was named after an American actress, producer and entrepreneur, Texas Guinan. A colorful character who would greet her speakeasy’s patrons, “Hello, Sucker! Come on in and leave your wallet on the bar."