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TIL of the song "Ngge Loves a Watermelon", also known as that melody played by ice cream trucks.

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OGeV4 TIL: That the term "Milquetoast", meaning a timid person, is often mistakenly spelled as "Milk Toast". But in a weird twist, the timid cartoon character of Caspar Milquetoast for whom the term is coined, was actually named after milk toast because of it's blandness! So both terms are correct!
DQgLY TIL because of the US Neutrality act at the start of WWII, the US delivered planes to the US-Canadian border and Britain pulled the across using horses or trucks.
P6Wn TIL For each episode of his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives host Guy Fieri invites a family from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For 363 episodes, he’s made it a point to ensure the whole family’s is invited, not just the child battling an illness. “We don’t want to single a kid out,” he explained.
OoEy7 TIL that engineers in Germany created “Brain Driver,” a car that can be driven with thoughts alone. Brain Driver’s headset consists of 16 sensors that monitor electrical signals from the brain.
E1dbP TIL that your cousins’ children are your 1st cousins once removed, and that “once removed” simply refers to the one generation gap between you. Their children are thus your 1st cousins twice removed, etc.