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TIL A fresh cilantro plant and a Stink Bug smell the same.

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nerGW TIL "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is an insult used to refer to French people. It first appeared in the Simpsons (1995) when Willy says "Bonjoooouuurrr, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys" to a French class. The term has since entered two Oxford Quotation Dictionaries.
Y8gP TIL Pope Benedict defrocked nearly 400 priests for abusing children
Z809a TIL that the song Africa by Toto has a sound installation that was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play the song on a constant loop. That installation is powered by solar batteries, allowing the song to be played indefinitely.
4G6o TIL that in 1913, Hitler, Freud, Tito, Stalin, and Trotsky all lived within 2 square miles of each other in Vienna
k5gE TIL Murakami when writing a novel gets up at 4am writes for 6 hrs then runs 10k or swims 1500m (or both) then sleeps by 9pm because repetition is a form of mesmerism to reach a deeper state of mind