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Til: that the word meander comes from the name of a river in Turkey.

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GKRG TIL in WWI the British dug tunnels 120 feet underground to lay 22 mines beneath German trenches. Exploded at 3AM, the mines took out 10,000 German soldiers and an entire town in a “detonation now known as history’s deadliest non-nuclear, man-made explosion.”
KDKw TIL that instead of chucking live lobsters into boiling water or splitting their heads open, you can anesthetize them with clove oil before cooking. And as a bonus, it makes them taste better (probably due to reduced stress hormones and reduced hemolymph loss).
YpbQv TIL Devo 2.0, a Disney tween cover band of Devo, was the idea of Devo's Gerald Casale - when Disney proposed repurposing their material for the child audience, Casale replied that they can do it by hiring a group of children, like in The Monkees, instead of Devo playing these songs for kids.
4XMwg TIL if you’re gay you have pretty strict restrictions on donating blood
697ew TIL The asteroid impact that killed dinosaurs triggered a "mega earthquake" that lasted for months