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TIL The brand name VELCRO® is a portmanteau of the French words “velour” (velvet) and “crochet” (hook)

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dD9N7 TIL that oxymoron is one itself. “oxy” = sharp, “moron” = “dull” - which also makes it an autological word.
dVWZ TIL Samuel L Jackson first used the word ‘Motherfucker’ because it helped overcome a lifelong stuttering problem.
WkEE8 TIL of the Bethke brothers. Each escaped from Soviet East Berlin. Ingo floated on a mattress across a river. Holger used a bow to fire a cable across the gap, then zip-lined to safety. Then Ingo and Holger built an aircraft and flew back over the wall to rescue their third brother, Egbert.
gWw8 TIL that the word ‘Poecilonym’ is the synonym to the word 'synonym’.
b6vJZ TIL Men who were killed by hanging would frequently get erections and sometimes even ejaculate. The phenomenon is referred to as death erection or angel lust