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TIL Doritos roughly translates to "little golden things" in Spanish

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kOLPg TIL during WWII the Royal Marines used a body with fake orders to trick the Axis Powers into believing the Allies were invading Greece
wYVo TIL a music artist has to get over 4 million plays on Spotify each month to equal a minimum wage living. (Article also shows how much of each other type of media would have to be sold to earn minimum wage.)
6ELdm TIL by the end of WW2, the United States was spending $213,000,000 a day on the war effort; adjusted for inflation, that's over three billion dollars a day.
GA5DE TIL if people had herbivorous pets instead of dogs and cats, 6.9 billion animal lives would be spared from slaughter every year
ADyYa TIL that Franz Kafka starved to death because the tuberculosis in his throat would not allow him to eat.