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Oonng TIL Aussie slang or “strine” is often characterized by making words as short as possible; the story goes it developed by speaking through clenched teeth to avoid blowies (blow flies) from getting into the mouth.
LQd7p TIL the world's first package tour was day trip from Leicester to Loughborough
e0Ydg TIL: The USS Wisconsin took a direct hit from N Korean 155mm guns with little damage. The crew then returned fire with all nine of her 16 inch guns totally obliterating anything in the position the hostile shots came from. After the shots were fired, a sister ship signaled them "Temper, Temper"
4XjPg TIL that the last surviving Woolly Mammoths lived on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until just 2000 BC, not long after the construction of the Giza Pyramids
ne4OW TIL that Eminem watched his daughter, Hailie, get crowned homecoming queen from an empty classroom in the school because he didn’t want to take the attention away from her.