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TIL of hyperforeignism, which is when people mispronounce foreign words that are actually simpler than they assume. Examples include habanero, coup de grâce, and Beijing.

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kmjd TIL: A German town was unknowingly built in a meteorite impact crater, and it’s stone buildings contain thousands of tons of micro-diamonds.
v1waB TIL that everyone who lives in this census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California is, by definition, a Happy Camper
VBkYG TIL the U.S Army once designed an anti armor grenade that would be the same size and shape of a football so US soldiers knew how to sling it and the prototype was built using a hollowed out nerf ball.
PYJME TIL about Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two Swedish identical twins who in 2008 suffered from folie à deux (or "shared psychosis") in London and went on a rampage that involved assaulting police, pedestrians and eventually murder.
rxre TIL in order to reduce the number of squirrelpox-carrying gray squirrels, Prince Charles has backed a plan to feed the squirrels oral contraceptives hidden in Nutella.