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TIL: Peanuts are in fact not a nut

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YGxd TIL of Burton Joseph, a Jew who representing the ACLU, defended the right for Neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, IL—a community where 1 in 6 residents were Holocaust survivors—because he believed in freedom of speech.
7ogM TIL that SOS doesn’t mean “save our ship” or “save our souls.” SOS doesn’t actually stand for anything at all and is used simply because of how easy it is to remember.
rwDy TIL that the terms “Panic Attack” and “Anxiety Attack” are not the same thing, but are both still used interchangeably.
7r1dM TIL that leap years are every 4 years, but if it's divisible by 100 we skip it, unless it's divisible by 400 then we add it back, UNLESS it's divisible by 8000, in which case it will be skipped
9Y587 TIL during a screening of Blue Velvet in Chicago a man fainted and had to have his pacemaker changed. Upon completion, he returned to the cinema to see the movie's ending