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TIL In Turkey, the word for “turkey” is “hindi”, meaning “India”. In India, the word for “turkey” is “peru”.

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x6XVB TIL that NASA is still paying Space Shuttle landing fees 11 years after the program ended.
6Eo68 TIL the Vandals (origin of the word "vandalism"), notorious for the sack of Rome, actually negotiated with the then Pope and only raided the city's wealth but left the buildings intact
dD9pB TIL that in August 1986 a limnic eruption (the release of dissolved carbon dioxide from a body of water) resulted in the deaths of 1746 people and 3500 livestock living near Lake Nyos, Cameroon
WmWo TIL that Coca Cola douches were used as contraceptives in USA in the 1950s and 60s..
9w4Jp TIL William Sessions (FBI director until 1993) became a lawyer for the Russian mob's international leader