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TIL approximately 38% of English-language slang words for vomit come from Australia.

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1NDW TIL Germans celebrate Father’s day by having “oddly dressed men pulling wagons filled with beer into parks and drinking until they pass out.”
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M75m TIL That due to the cosmological principle, any spot in space and time can be the centre of the universe.