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TIL fries are not french, but belgian

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5XNP TIL that comedian Patton Oswalt sent out a series of tweets on August 17 that came off as very offensive when read individually, but were totally fine when read together (picture in comments).
p87bQ TIL about German playboy Rolf Eden, age 86, who once sued a 19-yr old woman for age discrimination after she refused to sleep with him. He intends to die while having sex and has allocated $330K in his will to whichever woman is fucking him at the moment of his death.
evWb TIL that George Clooney pranked his friend by cleaning his friends cats litter box so his friend thinks his cat does not poop and then George takes a dump in to the box making it look like the cat took a huge dump after several days
X6wj TIL: The term “Bistro” means “quickly” in Russian, and was introduced to the French in Paris during the Russian occupation of France following the Napoleonic Wars, as Russian soldiers overran Parisian restaurants
p8M5p TIL that figs are pollinated by wasps that die inside the fig. Actually I learned this a month ago and have looked inside every fig I’ve eaten since, in the hopes of finding a dead wasp or wasp parts. No luck yet.