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TIL the term 'Gypsy' for Romani people likely arose from perception that they were 'Egyptians', evidence suggests most Romani originally came from India

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RGr8 TIL that the deadliest blizzard in history took place February 1972, in Iran. Up to 26 feet (7.9m) of snow fell over a week in some regions and approx. 4,000 people died.
699AJ TIL: In 1990 Jennifer Aniston played a version of Jennifer Grey's Jeannie Bueller for a Ferris Bueller TV series that was so bad it was cancelled after the first season
6E5vJ TIL the lyric “they stab it with their steely knives” from “Hotel California” by the Eagles is a nod to Steely Dan for the free publicity they gave them when the Eagles were mentioned in a lyric from Steely Dan’s song “Everything You Did” which goes “turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening”.
wLwaP TIL During a scrapped Conan O'Brien skit, Conan was supposed to cut off someone talking about star wars vs star trek, but didn’t, and they spoke for 6 minutes straight in quite an impressive explanation the Conan staff wasn’t expecting.
1akaP TIL of archaeophytes, non-native plants that were introduced into new areas by people in ancient times.