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TIL there’s an official term for Grammar Nazi’s: Prescriptivists.

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xLJk TIL Last year, a Chinese company sold over 110 million counterfeit condoms to Ghana.
l79bN TIL there is a "significant relationship" between the length of a male narwhal's tusk and the size of its testes
7r6EP TIL that L. Frank Baum, the author of the famous children's book, "the Wizard of Oz," called for the genocide of American Indians, writing in 1890 and 1891 that "in order to protect our civilization . . . wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth"
neeKY TIL we never see things as they are now, but as they were in the past, the delay is caused by the time it takes light to reach your eyes. We see the Moon as it was approximately 1.3 seconds in the past, the Sun as it was 8 minutes in the past, the Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million years in the past.
Oo9XY TIL Thomas Grasso's last meal was two dozen mussels, two dozen clams, a Burger King double cheeseburger, six barbecued ribs, two strawberry shakes, half a pumpkin pie, diced strawberries, and spaghetti. His final statement: I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this