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TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell

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Ooma7 TIL that they make and sell blue Santa suits in Liverpool as they are the colours of Everton FC and fans refuse to wear Red and White as they are the colours of their rivals, Liverpool FC.
wLMAP TIL Gundam Factory Yokohama is constructing an 18-meter-tall, 25-ton Gundam robot. The plan is for the robot to have a steel frame and carbon resin exterior and be powered by electric actuators, achieving “Gundam-like movement”
6kpW TIL that the Lone Star Tick of the Eastern United States can give people a meat allergy
7ryZr TIL that French organist and composer Louis Vierne died at the organ of Notre-Dame while giving a concert. Curiously enough, it was fulfilling his life-long dream.
QGde TIL that prostitutes used to wear vaginal wigs called Merkins to hide their shaved vaginas… And their syphilis symptoms. (Nsfw)