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TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell

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nWjk9 TIL that in 1943, Rosa Parks boarded a bus being driven by James F. Blake when the latter told Parks to disembark and re-enter from the back. When Parks got off the bus, Blake sped off. 12 years later, Parks would famously defy Blake, thereby prompting the Montgomery bus boycott.
PA4O TIL That Warwick Davis was only 13 when he played the role of the Ewok ‘Wicket’ in Return of the Jedi, and 18 when playing the title role in Willow
Bgwmk TIL the largest football (soccer) stadium in the world is the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in North Korea, with a total capacity of 114,000
W7DdA TIL in 2016 a man in China who took a selfie with a walrus was killed by the animal afterward, when it dragged him into water & held him under. Spectators & zoo staff thought it was just "playful behavior" at first. Eventually its trainer jumped in to help, but it killed him too by holding him under
R5ola TIL that the term "use case" originated in software engineering and was popularized by Ivar Jacobson, a Swedish computer scientist, in the 1980s. The first known published use of the term "use case" was in Jacobson's 1992 book "Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach.”