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TIL that the Turkish word for a turkey bird means "India," the Hindi word means "Turkey," the Portuguese word means "Peru," Khmer and Scottish Gaelic call it a "French chicken," Malay calls it a "Dutch chicken," and various dialects of Arabic call it a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken.

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jNlJa TIL Benford's Law dictates that any number occurring in nature (such as the speed of light or the length of a river) is more likely to start with 1 than any other number. There's a 30% chance it will start with 1, and the probability of it being any number from 2 through 9 decreases exponentially.
p8VZp TIL That a man claims a taco saved his life in a shooting. The man said he would normally have had his window down with his arm on the edge, but he had it up because he didn't want pieces of his taco flying around. The bullet hit the window and deflected.
VBBa8 TIL Ulcers aren't caused by stress, they're most commonly caused by bacteria
WGlX TIL the last princess of Korea died in 1989, after 37 years spent in Japan, returning to Korea in tears, and resided in Changdeok Palace until her death, the last royal resident to reside there. Her parents would’ve been the last Emperor and Empress of Korea had it not been annexed to Japan in 1910.
nemGB TIL that the neurons in an octopus are not concentrated in the brain - 2/3 of them are located in the tentacles meaning that each individual tentacle acts autonomously and independently of the brain. However, an octopus can exert precise control over a tentacle when need be through eyesight alone.