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TIL The color of your bread tie indicates the day on which the bread was baked

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ZmxY TIL many 18th & 19th century accounts of sea serpent/monster sightings can be attributed to the prehensile whale penis.
ANMWn TIL shorts were once considered taboo in America. The city of Honesdale, PA banned the wearing of shorts in 1938, "Honesdale is a modest town, not a bathing beach." In May 1959, Plattsburgh, N.Y. banned the wearing of shorts by anyone over 16. Violators received a $25 fine or 25 days in jail.
Dvwj TIL that the most highly decorated naval officer of the Allied during WW2 was the Norwegian Leif Larsen, a veteran of the Winter War who ferried refuges and soldiers through occupied Norway over 50 times with a fishing boat.
LkB7d TIL Natalie Portman had multiple sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher and one with Mila Kunis ( Kutcher's now wife) in separate movies in the same year.
69L6w TIL that Shalom aleichem is the Hebrew version of As-salamu alaykum, with both rooted in a shared Semitic origin meaning 'peace.' While 'shalom' emphasizes harmony and completeness in Judaism, 'salam' reflects peace through submission to God's will in Islam.