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TIL in 2018 Webster's Dictionary added the word "embiggen" from the Simpsons season 7

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5Y8GB TIL about Festa Confederada, the annual festival of Southern US heritage held in Brazil, originally started by Confederate soldiers and their families who fled to Brazil after the Civil War, where slavery was still legal.
6lDm TIL a 10-year-old saved his great-grandmother’s life in a speeding vehicle after she fell unconscious while driving. As they veered into oncoming traffic, the boy grabbed the wheel and guided the car to a halt in a mud filled ditch. Hailed as a hero, he credited his skills to playing Mario Kart.
P1GE TIL in the 50s physicians performed accurate pregnancy tests by injecting urine from the supposedly pregnant women into a frog. If the frog produced eggs within 24 hrs the test was positive.
gMKrX TIL about a mega-colony of Argentine Ants spanning 6 continents and 1000s of miles territory including Japan, California and the Mediterranean coast. It is the largest inter-related colony ever discovered and rivals humans in its global scale
BgKje TIL the photons harnessed for solar energy are the same ones responsible for skin cancer.