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TIL of the euphemism treadmill, the concept of language being phased out and replaced due to offensive connections. For example, moron and idiot were legitimate medical terms, but were phased out due to people using them as insults. They were replaced with retarded, which has also been phased out.

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daYZ TIL a lightning strike set a Jim Beam warehouse on fire, destroying 800,000 gallons of bourbon(19,000 barrels), but was less than two percent of Beam’s total bourbon inventory.
wLWVJ TIL that cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters have little to no health benefits.
VMDP8 TIL that WALL-E's name is an acronym. It stands for Waste Allocation Load-Lifter: Earth-class.
4kmAb TIL half-moons on fingernails and toenails (lunala) disappear with age.
e0p06 TIL 15% of American divorces are caused in part by "men paying more attention to their video games than their spouse", as of 2011.