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TIL Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists. Today it is used to describe those who uphold the legacies of leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.

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wWZ7 TIL a group of ladybugs is called a “loveliness of ladybugs.”
rRnk1 Today I learned that lizards eat their shed skin
p8d0A TIL about the Finnish term "kalsarikänni" which translates to “drinking at home, alone, in your underwear”
9wJgm TIL - one of the top songs in 1972/3 was by Loudon Wainwright III, son of a WW2 correspondent, called “Dead Skunk” (in the middle of the road)
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