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TIL in 1986 Glasgow showed support to Nelson Mandela by re-naming a street after him; the street the South African consulate was on

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1apZD TIL the grasshopper and locust are actually the same creature; the locust is the grasshopper high on serotonin.
neglB Today I learned Mozart composed “Leck mich im Arsch”, which translates to “Lick me in the arse”
6Jm7 TIL that the most decorated American unit in WWII was the 442nd, an almost exclusively Japanese-American infantry regiment
wyvo TIL that the world’s oldest known dildo is approximately 30,000 years old.
5p8P TIL of Peter Fechter, an 18 year old East German who was shot by East German troops trying to cross the Berlin Wall, was caught in barbed wire, and bled to death in front of the world’s media, as police tried to throw him bandages.