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TIL that the word "juvenile" refers to any child, not just to children who have committed crimes.

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5V1an TIL the oldest confirmed dildo is ~28,000 years old, made of siltstone, has etched rings around the top, and is highly polished from use…
kle1 TIL in 1943 Packard Motors promoted 3 blacks to work next to whites on the assembly line causing 25,000 workers to walk off the job.
0weWp TIL nearly all color laser printers code hidden metadata and tracking information into their printouts using hidden yellow dots. Originally designed to prevent counterfeit currency.
XE4n8 TIL in 1936, Orson Welles directed an entirely African American cast in a production of Macbeth set in the Caribbean, nicknamed Voodoo Macbeth, where Haitian vodou took the place of Scottish witchcraft
vDe8 TIL: Intuit, the makers of TurboTax invest millions of dollars to lobby against simplifying the tax code.