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TIL Al Qaeda called out Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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OG7JR TIL about calques. Calques are loanwords from other languages into English. However, unlike loanwords (ex:restaurant), calques are translated into English. Examples include: potsticker, beer garden, ear worm, and flea market.
RRm6 TIl that more Falklands veterans have committed suicide since the war than were killed during it.
1xAW TIL that the Chicago Cubs were the first baseball team to win back-to-back World Series; and haven’t won since
4XDZw TIL in 2016 a Forest Service Officer named Brad Treat took a blind turn while mountain biking at 30 mph. He crashed into a large grizzly bear that was sitting on the trail and was immediately mauled to death in response to the collision.
WEdX TIL that the Nicholson Electroplating bomb from the LA Noire DLC pack is not only possible, it actually happened in 1947- at an electroplating plant inLos Angeles