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TIL Japanese uses a large number of wasei-eigo, or English-based invented words and phrases that don’t exist in English, such as “cherry boy” for a male virgin, “virgin road” for the wedding aisle, “skin-ship” for physical intimacy, and “year of the coach” for Coach of the Year.

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DZVp TIL that all modern color printers print a secret, nearly invisible code onto every page to allow governments to track the serial number and timestamps
PYR0g TIL that a school in Massachusetts has been condemned for torture by the UN
dl8E TIL Joe Castiglione, Red Sox radio broadcaster, told Daniel Nava to swing as hard as he could on the first pitch before the game because “that’s the only first pitch in the majors you’ll ever see,”. Nava is only the fourth player to have hit a grand slam in his first at-bat.
wLBn6 TIL about that Computer Processor companies like Intel essentially make one type of chip, then test individual processors and “bin” them, thus separating the high, middle, and low performing ones. These are then sold as i3, i5, and i7.
bdXQ TIL that microwaves are “non-ionising” radiation, meaning they are too low-energy to damage DNA. So your microwave could give you a nasty burn (enough to kill you, even), but only in the same manner as your oven.