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TIL Russian and Japan still haven’t signed a peace treaty to end World War II

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8epMX TIL that Finnish NHL player Esa Tikkanen was known for his indecipherable speech called Tiki-Talk or Tikkanese. Wayne Gretzky once remarked, "He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer."
x6v9D TIL "skosh" comes from Japanese sukoshi meaning literally "a little"
pYZR8 TIL Jack Ketch, Charles I's executioner, became so notorious for botched executions that his name became a synonym for death and he once wrote an apology letter for beheading someone so poorly.
R7Rj7 TIL Pistachios used to almost always be sold coated with a deep red dye, to hide harmlessly but unattractively splotchy hulls. Discolored hulls is no longer an issue with better harvesting technology, allowing today's pistachios to be sold without dye.
Vgw0 TIL that in the Simpsons opening theme when maggie is scanned, the register flashes “$847.63” which was the average price to support a baby monthly in the US at the time of the shows debut in 1989.