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TIL that marijuana is called ‘pot’ due to it being derived from the Spanish word 'potaguaya’, which is a wine or brandy that has had marijuana buds steeped in it

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NpyM TIL that in Saudi Arabia the weekend is Thursday and Friday. Some business leaders want to switch to a Friday-Saturday weekend to match other Middle Eastern countries, but religious conservatives don’t want to share a weekend with Israel.
0wrpp TIL of Othmar Ammann, a Swiss-American engineer. He was the lead engineer of more than half of NYC crossings including the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel. His designs were inexpensive and elegant allowing the projects to be completed on time and under budget
laYK TIL that 34.5 % of the female prison population in Canada are aboriginal women, even if they only accounted for 4% of the total Canadian female population
X045D TIL that Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," persuaded Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national US holiday in 1863, after 17 unsuccessful years of writing letters to presidents.
wLwo7 TIL Half of European men share King Tut’s DNA