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Today I learned crazy vocabulary from this young kid

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x771 TIL that when it became apparent that Israel was going to win the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest, most of the Arabic countries ended their transmission of the contest. This includes Jordan, who replaced the live broadcast with a picture of daffodils and later announced that Belgium had won.
YpLe7 TIL doctors, nurses and Catholic clergy were involved in stealing ~ 300,000 babies during the Franco era in Spain. Children were moved from parents deemed "undesirable" and placed them with "approved" families. Birth mothers were told their baby had died.
mdAy TIL the native americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
0wnnj TIL in 2019, a male nurse had sex with a woman who had been in a coma for 14 years. Nobody knew until she gave birth to baby boy.
nMJG TIL “American” is an ethnicity, and according to the 2000 US Census, an increasing number of people are identifying with it.