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TIL that in German there are two verbs for eating, one exclusively for humans and one for animals. In fact, you can use the animal verb to imply (impolitely) that someone eats like an animal.

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OoQ7L TIL that since 2005, Avon, Ohio has hosted an annual duct tape festival dedicated to celebrating "duct tape, its enthusiasts, and its wacky and fun uses." The event features duct tape sculptures, a duct tape fashion show, and a parade of giant floats constructed using duct tape.
xVR7B TIL that daily or weekly streak doesn’t motivate people to continue doing something once it’s discontinued. Rather, it’s better to show the total number of days that you did something since the number will never be decreased and never demotivate users.
yQgo8 TIL Coco Chanel, famous fashion designer, was a Nazi sympathizer and agent
VBn8k TIL Paignton Zoo stopped feeding bananas to their monkeys because it was unhealthy, like "giving them cake and chocolate".
xglb TIL that baseball player Gaylord Perry’s manager once remarked that “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”. On July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career