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Pa6E TIL a Spam text message stopped a suicide bomber New Years Eve 2010.
Z8mQo TIL that because beef tallow and lard are unkosher, northern European "Jews turned to poultry fat as their cooking fat of choice; the overfeeding of geese to produce more fat per bird produced modern Europe's first foie gras as a side effect."
x660b TIL about Chesterton's Fence, i.e. the principle that you should not make reforms to a system without first understanding the current state of affairs present in that system.
JYW1B TIL that during the "Red Scare" of the McCarthyism era, in 1953 the Cincinnati Reds baseball team changed its name to the Redlegs, only reverting back to Reds after the 1959 season.
5Y4ek TIL "Art Intervention" is the proper term used for an art installation that is outdoors