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TIL the word “niggardly” is an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly,” and is completely unrelated to the racial slur “nigger” despite their phonetic similarity.

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MeeP8 TIL 9th November is known as the ‘day of fate’ in German history- on the same day, Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Munich Putsch occurred in 1923, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
0xxj TIL Prior to Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin wrote incredibly freaky Science Fiction, including the very unsettling ‘Sandkings,’ first published in OMNI then later made into an Outer Limits episode.
0dPyA TIL that the kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, lit. 'divine wind') were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan.
Z8VnR TIL: A ”moment” is 90 seconds
n9gP TIL Rob Lowe, Robert Downey Jr., Charlie Sheen, and Sean Penn all went to the same high school and were friends.