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TIL of the word “callipygian,” which means “having a well-shaped buttocks.”

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p8G94 TIL that Chicago has a large pack of coyotes that patrol the city, hunting rats.
yVVOl TIL that in Quebec, wafers used for holy communion are sold in stores as snacks
gMoJb TIL the first hostile aerial bombardment on U.S. soil happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white police forces took to the air to drop incendiary bombs and dynamite on the business district in the black neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the "Black Wall Street."
Y7gm7 TIL that there are nation states that are actively collecting our encrypted files and storing them to be able to decrypt them once quantum computing gets to the point to break today’s encryption known as Store Now Decrypt Later - SNDL. This scares the bejeezus out of me
GYGEj TIL John Williams did the music for Home Alone