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TIL that “verklempt” is not a Yiddish word. It just sounds a lot like the Yiddish word that means the same thing - “farklempt”

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Km1w TIL that American Space Shuttle Astronaut John Grunsfeld, while in orbit, called in to NPR’s Car Talk posing as a stumped caller.
m149y TIL that the youngest soldier in the first world war (WWI) was an 8 year old from Serbia, Momčilo Gavrić (1 May, 1906 - 28 April 1993)