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TIL that "Song 2" by Blur was intended to be a parody of grunge culture, but was unironically accepted by the very culture it was parodying

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KO9XR TIL that in Norway, people use the term "texas" as slang for "crazy". It doesn't refer to a person, but a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind, so saying a party "was totally crazy!" in Norwegian would be "det var helt texas!", which literally means "it was texas!"
NMZb TIL a Russian equivalent of “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” is “Catch the bear before you sell his skin”
9YG0D TIL Amazon physically ships 100 petabytes of data at a time via shipping containers on semi-trucks to AWS datacenters for companies migrating to the cloud
EZWp TIL- Most countries DO NOT use Daylight Savings Time.
VMoVp TIL Patrick Stewart largely changed the way people pronounce the word "data"