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TIL that “Texas” is slang for ‘crazy’ in Norway

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oRmn7 TIL that the very first "crowd wave" at a sports event ocurred spontaneously. At a Colorado Rockies NHL ice hockey game in 1980, a section of the crowd rose to their feet slightly later than the section beside them. This continued around the area to complete a "wave", without having been prompted.
WQXN TIL The Dodo bird was actually a giant pigeon. It grew and lost it’s ability to fly due to Island Gigantism.
4kXoR TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was a stand-in for Bill Cosby on "The Cosby Show" for three years
AeGd TIL that the word “quisling”, or a person who collaborates with an enemy occupying force, is derived from a man named Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime in Norway during the Second World War. His name is now synonymous with the word “traitor”.
wVG6 TIL that in 1746, Jean-Antoine Nollet crudely estimated the speed of electricity by shocking a mile of monks