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TIL the cracks in the sidewalk are added to allow flexibility for thermal expansion

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RXvl TIL that in Hungary, there’s a term—"Kacsamesék generáció"—that translates to “the DuckTales generation,” referring to kids who were born in the early-to-mid ‘80s.
XpDj TIL that the artificial sweetener Sucralose (Splenda) was discovered when a researcher misheard a command to “Test this chemical” as “taste this chemical”.
b6L4 TIL that Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word antisemitic treatise called “On the Jews and Their Lies,” which states that Jews are “full of the devil’s feces…which they wallow in like swine,” and that their synagogue is “an incorrigible whore and an evil slut.”
8akvV TIL the term "Life unworthy of life", used by the Nazis to describe the targets of the Holocaust, had been around since 1920 referring to mental disabilities, and later was adopted and extended by the Nazis to include racial differences.
RmNj TIL that, due to the presence of quinine, tonic water is fluorescent under ultraviolet light or even the sun (pics inside!)