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TIL that the American/Canadian cities called "Carlsbad" were named for the presence of mineral water springs, honoring the Bohemian spa city Karlovy Vary, or Karlsbad in German.

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69oNQ TIL that in addition to there being cardinal numbers (1, 2, 3) and ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd), there are also cardinal directions (N/E/W/S) and ordinal directions (NE/SE/NW/SW).
R5Pl TIL, the state of South Carolina executed George Stinney Jr., a 14 year old boy, youngest executed in the United States ever, with just a confession that may have been coerced with ice cream.
4XvBw TIL Humans are not the only animal that likes to get drunk. Australian parrots have discovered that sugar spilt from cane trucks and wet by dew overnight can rapidly ferment in the Sun, providing free booze.
WkEmB Today I learned of Hurdy-Gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.
v8XR TIL that the French spoken words in the Beyonce song “Partition” are almost word-for-word taken from a conversation in the French dub version of the film “The Big Lebowski”