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TIL the Nazis considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.

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GYRbN TIL that, after the Norman Conquest of England, nobles referred to the meat they ate in French, but the peasants who raised animals for meat referred to them in Anglo-Saxon. This is why modern English has words such as beef and pork for meat, but cow and pig for the animals it comes from.
P1Zee TIL that Los Angeles and San Diego Purchase most of their water from a private corporation called 'The Wonderful Company', which functions as a holding company for billionaire couple Stewart and Lynda Resnick. POM Wonderful and FIJI Water are two of their business divisions.
XZNr TIL “Censored Eleven”; 11 cartoons by Looney Toons/Merrie Melodies from the late 1930s-early 1940s that were banned since 1968 for racism. All cartoons in topic. [NSFW]
6Ke8 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world at math, 4th in the world at reading, and 2nd in the world at science, behind only Singapore..
rnPW TIL that “inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx.