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TIL House of Pain is not actually from Boston but rather LA.

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aLGA TIL During WW II Britain stopped selling food to Ireland in order to persuade them to drop neutrality and enter the war. Ireland responded by cutting off all exports of Guinness. The supplying of food was resumed.
6KwZ TIL of the aphorism Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness”.
Y7BRB TIL that soybeans are named after soy sauce, not the other way around. "Soy" comes from the Japanese "shoyu" (soy sauce), which is from a Chinese word meaning "thick, oily paste".
pYP18 TIL that, in school, boys are graded more harshly than girls for the same work.
VMKyB TIL - While other birds have to sit on nests and use their body heat to incubate their eggs, incubator birds are more like engineers and have a very good solution. They pile plant debris on their eggs and make use of the heat of composting to hatch their eggs, essentially creating a mini greenhouse.