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TIL Alcoholics Anonymous groups use "thirteenth stepping" as a pejorative term for approaching new members of the groups for dates.

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b97R7 TIL There is a group of towns who call themselves the League of Extraordinary Communities, composed of Bland, Dull, and Boring.
1aOJd TIL The Spanish Flu effected the entire world, killing more than 50 million. The outbreak was during WWI and to keep morale high, wartime censors for many countries minimized it. Papers were free to report its effects in neutral Spain causing many to think it was largely confined to that country.
e0OZb TIL all airports are aerodromes, but not all aerodromes are airports.
OLQ6 TIL The US is 15th on the list of countries which believe that “The US government respects the freedom of its people.”
6OG8 TIL that killer bees were created by a Brazilian scientist to create more honey, but they create less and are highly aggressive.