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TIL that a German dictionary producer hold an annual competition for best "Youth word" of the year (examples in comments)

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nWvZo TIL - Sixty Years Ago, NASA Scientists Found That Women Would Be Better Astronauts. Their Work Was Never Published.
5Y65D TIL BMW drifted a M5 for 232.5 continuous miles, which included a stuntman refueling the car from a tandem-drifting tanker.
KNxB TIL the only employee of Goldman Sachs to go to jail in the aftermath of the financial crisis was an employee that Goldman Sachs specifically told authorities to arrest for stealing computer code the employee helped write. He was arrested 48 hours after they informed authorities without a warrant.
7rGEP TIL that at a point, breathing in Delhi, India was equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day.
yQroa TIL fungi are 2.5 billion years old and are technically our ancestors