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TIL About Operation Underworld — when the US Government and the Mafia Collaborated to stop Nazis

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kJ0Y5 TIL about Pandanus Language which is only ever used by some New Guinea peoples when collecting Pandanus nuts
xV67k TIL that 78 years ago, FDR moved Thanksgiving one week earlier to increase holiday sales. This day became known as "Franksgiving."
8MJZ TIL that Mahi-mahi stay with their mate and if one of the pair is caught, the partner stays in the same location awaiting its mate to reappear.
P1D6G TIL Xanadu, the exotic "stately pleasure-dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, was a real abandoned city in Inner Mongolia, China. Kublai Khan built it as the Yuan dynasty's summer capital, and Marco Polo visited during his travels.
E1bwo TIL that the Groom of the Stool (person in charge of helping the English monarch poop) was a coveted position of power and influence due to the close, intimate access to the King/Queen.