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TIL that for some reason Chinese media has explicitly banned the phrase “green tea bitch”

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ADeWl TIL many brands of "ice cream" (such as Breyer's and Dreyer's) sold in the US is technically NOT ice cream, but is labeled as a "frozen dairy dessert" as they do not contain an adequate amount of milk fat (10%) to actually be considered true "Ice Cream"
kwLB TIL The Greeks had no word for the color blue.
0rOL TIL that the Farmers Almanac has been in publication since 1792. Their predictions are based on 30 year statistical averages and “many longtime Almanac followers claim that our forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate.”
R5be8 TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.
eLJn TIL there is a giant limestone wall in Bolivia that has over 5000 dinosaur footprints on it. The 462 tracks were made by 8 species over 68 million years ago.