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TIL That EMINEM Means "Every Mother Is Nice Except Mine"?

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LkmY9 TIL A month-long public hunt of invasive pythons is held on a vast expanse of state forests and other government-owned land north of Everglades national park.
adY0 TIL an Iraqi informant single-handedly provided enough testimony about WMD’s between 1999-2001 to help justify the war in Iraq (2003-2011). An investigation in 2005 found he was crazy, out of control, a congenital liar, and an alcoholic. He later admitted he made it all up to be granted asylum.
KQ5G TIL there is a whistle-blower known as Clare Francis (possibly a fake identity for multiple people) who is responsible for tipping off over 100 academic journals about suspected fraudulent research.
NPaP TIL that 80% of the Germans killed in WWII were killed by Russians.
pYMGQ TIL that mafaldine pasta was named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, who was imprisoned during World War Il at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where she died.