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TIL Fred Durst and his band (Limp Bizkit) wanted a band name that would turn people's heads away when reading it. Names they considered included Gimp Disco, Split Dickslit, Bitch Piglet, and Blood Fart.

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neBBW TIL of Abul Bajandar, sometimes referred to as the tree man.His hands and feet grew foot-long, gnarled "roots," skin lesions that left him unable to feed himself, move around, work, or wear standard clothing. He had to undergo more than 25 surgeries remove the growths in his hands and feet.
N77BE TIL the longest running operation in the US Air Force is Operation Christmas Drop, which is a training mission where toys and treats are airdropped into Micronesia.
P1M1w TIL that Japanese mythology describes cats as nasty, evil creatures. Old gray and red or orange cats with long tails are the evilest variety, followed by tricolored ones.
1drW There was a badass military leader Jan Žižka, who never lost a fight and whose army, consisting of 12,000 peasants and farmers, defeated the armies of Holy Roman Empire and Hungary who numbered some 100,000 men.
7rvMP TIL that even though it was described as a "mishmash of colors" the orange paint of the General Lee matches exactly a tone of orange called TNT Express, which belongs to a European shipping company and is used throughout its entire fleet.