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TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell

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GANDJ TIL the Cayman Islands own $285.3B in U.S debt and ranks 7th in amount owned by foreign states.
neQO7 TIL sometimes Spitfires had to taxi to the take-off position with a person sat on the tail. In 1945 a pilot forgot about this and took-off with mechanic Margaret Horton clinging on the tail. The pilot realized that his aircraft wasn't handling correctly and landed with Miss Horton still on the tail
97E6 TIL that Legos minifigures were originally yellow to avoid assigning a specific ethnicity to allow fans to assign their own roles to the minifigures.
0My TIL: The “Little Red-Haired Girl” in Peanuts was based off Donna Mae Johnson.After dating for three years Schulz proposed to her but she turned him down.
e08B6 TIL thats in the entire history of Hollywood, only 27 people have played God Himself. Including Morgan Freeman, Wil I Am and Whoopy Goldberg