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TIL that the Kansai region of Japan refers to earwigs as "penis cutter" in English.

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PJQE TIL ‘Eat out’ meant 'perform cunnilingus on’ 3 years before it was used to refer to 'dining away from home’
5p8P TIL of Peter Fechter, an 18 year old East German who was shot by East German troops trying to cross the Berlin Wall, was caught in barbed wire, and bled to death in front of the world’s media, as police tried to throw him bandages.
7Qep TIL in 1965, the city of Amsterdam started the White Bicycle Plan that provided free public bicycles for anyone to go from place to place. Within a month, most of the bikes were stolen or found in canals.
oB6R7 TIL The Beatles' first use of studio trickery was on the first song on their first album, "I Saw Her Standing There." Their producer George Martin used an 'especially spirited' count-in from take 9 (“One, two, three, FOUR!”) and spliced it onto take 1, which was the take used on the album.
yPKa TIL the terms “left wing” and “right wing” refer to the seating arrangements in the French National Assembly just before the French Revolution.