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TIL; Pill bugs are not ‘bugs’ at all. They are land-dwelling crustaceans.

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nW6lG TIL that the word "boycott" comes from a British landlord's agent in Ireland named Charles Boycott who engaged in shady practices and therefore no one would do business with him.
wLKGW TIL Graveyard is a burial ground that adjoins a church’s and a cemetery is a burial ground that does not. People are buried in graveyards but in cemeteries it can be both people and ashes.
b9NxE TIL Canada had considered annexing the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean region. In the 1980s, local islanders in favor of joining the Canadian federation reached a peak support of 90%.
jlwR TIL that David Yost, the original Blue Power Ranger, left the show due to the harassment he received from creators, producers, writers over his being gay, causing him to have a nervous breakdown upon leaving. “The reason that I walked off is that I was called ‘f—–‘ one too many times,” Yost says.
rR9JW TIL that after firefighters saved piglets from a barn fire, 6 months later the farmer sent them sausages made from the piglets as a thank you gift