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TIL that German has a word for the weight you put on when you eat comfort food after a breakup, and it translates to “Grief bacon.”

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Yd0A TIL: The term ‘Sith’ is never mentioned in the original Star Wars trilogy
VMLWZ TIL that a public beach at California's Pt. Reyes Natl. Seashore was closed after the 2018 US govt shutdown. However, it was not reopened after the shutdown ended; over the month with no human activity, a breeding colony of elephant seals had invaded the beach, picnic area, and even its parking lot.
VMBaD TIL The code to inform US troops that South Vietnam was lost and should be evacuated instantly, was a weather report followed by the song "White Christmas"... in April.
9J0m TIL In 1848, the British East India Company sent Botanist Robert Fortune on a trip to China’s interior, an area forbidden to foreigners to steal tea seeds from China to India.He succeeded and within his lifetime, India surpassed China as the world’s largest tea grower.
9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.