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TIL Samuel L. Jackson started using the word “motherfucker” to overcome his lifelong stuttering problem

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MerEa TIL that 'burrito' means 'little donkey' in Spanish, named this way because burritos can carry many things, much like a donkey can.
pwke TIL that round goldfish bowls are banned in Monza (Italy), because ‘a fish kept in a bowl has a distorted view of reality’.
R7bb9 TIL: Honey doesn’t ever go off. You could, in theory, eat 3000 year old Honey and be absolutely fine.
KODVQ TIL of Jānis Pīnups. Presumed killed in World War II, he deserted the Red Army. To avoid being caught, he hid in the forest until 1995, constructing bunkers to hide in. Only his siblings knew he was alive, and he helped them gather forest mushrooms and berries under the cover of night.
grxYD TIL about the Bascom affair, in which the Apache took 6 American settlers hostage and eventually killed them. The incident lead to a decades long struggle known as the Apache Wars.