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TIL the Chinese phrase 日本鬼子 - Rìběn guǐzi, meaning "Japanese Devils" can be pronounced in Japanese as Hinomoto Oniko, which resembles a girl's name. Consequently, users of the Japanese imageboard 2channel created an anime character for the phrase.

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ne1kY TIL when the band 'Busted' was asked about the Jonas Brothers' cover of their song 'Year 3000', member Matt Willis said "Dude, they paid my mortgage for four years, I'm stoked to bits. Thank you very much Jonas Brothers"
9wPY6 TIL about the Hotel du Lac in Tunis, Tunisia constructed in the 1970s which is an example of Brutalist architecture. The hotel has a cantilevered design resulting in a top floor double the length of the ground floor and has prompted comparisons with the sand crawler vehicle of the Star Wars films.
e04B6 TIL Two metal detectorists who thought they'd found a stash of Roman gold coins they estimated to be worth £250,000 discovered the coins were actually a worthless prop for TV show The Detectorists.
X0v96 TIL JetBlue provides the most generous legroom in economy class at 32.3 inches, with Southwest Airlines offering a comfortable second place at 31.8 inches.
4G1o TIL during the civil war the man who chose the location for the Arlington Cemetery, Montgomery Meigs, a southerner who hated the confederacy, chose Arlington, Robert E. Lees family estate to remind him of the men he had killed, including Meigs’s son who was buried feet from Mrs. Lees rose garden.