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TIL the botanical genus name of the cotton thistle means 'donkey fart thorny food'

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j6VRR TIL along with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, Romania was secretly also a member of the Triple Alliance before WW1 because of the King of Romania's ties to Germany. Later, like with Italy, it decided to stay neutral at first and then joined the Allied Powers.
XEpRR TIL skilled archers can shoot arrows so they turn in the air, hitting targets behind obstacles
ZpKdG TIL that there’s a Fish Doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, where viewers ring the bell to help fish pass through a boat lock
rNA61 TIL Green Day started working on American Idiot after the master tapes of their previously planned album were stolen and they decided to start from scratch
v4gr TIL that at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, the world was introduced to hot dogs, hamburgers, waffle cones, peanut butter, iced tea, cotton candy, Puffed Wheat cereal and Dr. pepper