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TIL Māori tribal groups from New Zealand complained to LEGO as their language was heavily used in the Bionicle line of toys

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p87p4 TIL The phone number from Glenn Miller bands song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", is still in use, and is in fact the oldest working phone number. Has been working since 1930's. It connects you to Hotel Pennsylvania.
gMv7A TIL that the Japanese used houseflies coated in a bacterial slurry to spread cholera in China and kill an estimated 410,000 people during WWII.
Bro7r TIL for every year a woman breastfed it lowers her risk of breast cancer by 4.3%
4QKR TIL a teenage girl of the Xhosa people in Africa convinced her entire tribe to kill all their cattle, saying it would bring about a cataclysm destroying English colonizers. Tens of thousands died in the subsequent famine, and the English were unharmed.
5VD4P TIL that back in the day, marijuana was in all kinds of medicines, like stuff for headaches, pain, and even depression. It was everywhere until the 1930s, when the government decided to freak out about it and make it illegal.