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TIL that North Korea BBQ’s clams infused with gasoline

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jKoN TIL, that there is a demon found in Catholic lore that collects all the mispronounced words said by priests and puts them in a sack. That sack is later carried by the offending priests in hell.
6Mkm TIL that the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Sidney Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, “Yeah, yeah.”
BXrK TIL They used to use urine to tan animal skins. Families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day sell it to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were considered “Piss Poor”.
p8M4b Today I learned Shelly Winters dumped her drink on Oliver Reed's head after arguing back and forth on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1975
PPZZ TIL that to unintentionally mimic the accent of someone they are talking to, if they have a different accent, is a normal human trait. Psychologists believe it comes from an inbuilt urge to empathise and affiliate with the person you are talking to.