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TIL there are words known mostly by men or mostly by women

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xVkMk TIL in 1975, Indian intelligence agency warned the Bangladeshi president about a possible coup. He ignored their advice by saying "These are my own children and they will not harm me. Seven months later he was assassinated by some military officers, plotted by his closest political associates.
dDlwZ TIL i learned about the The Punch up in Piestany, a brawl between Canada and Soviet Union ice hockey players in 1987 that kept going for 20 minutes and just ended because the players got to tired, with even turning of the arena light did not stop the fighting.
Z8NAv TIL Cuba suffered a mysterious blindness epidemic which baffled their doctors, in the 90s. A US doctor found it was in part due to bad diet & vitamin deficiency. Then, meeting a sufferer who admitted to drinking moonshine, he realised it was also due to alcohol contaminated with methanol
JYlV8 TIL that Beach Boys lead songwriter and musical icon Brian Wilson made a hip-hop song
yVGWe TIL: A pineapple is not a single fruit, but a group of berries! Banana is a berry too!