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TIL the word of the year 2024 in Ukrain was "busification". Busification is a form of forced conscription where you're shoved into a van by conscription officers.

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6EnjW Today I learned that the English word "tycoon" is borrowed from the Japanese word "Taikun", the diplomatic title of the Japanese Shogun
OEbR TIL that in the past, muffins were sold by streethawkers door to door as a snack bread before most houses were provided with ovens in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, giving rise to the traditional song “Do you know the Muffin Man?”
kORN4 TIL the last German troops to surrender after World War II were a group of soldiers stationed at a meteorological station on Svalbard. They lost radio contact in May 1945 and were unable to radio for support until August 1945. They were picked up by Norwegian seal hunters on September 4.
PnXZ TIL that there exists an apartment building in midtown NYC that is taller than the One Word Trade Center disregarding the WTC’s spire
X0axj TIL about François de Civille, a 16th-century Frenchman who survived being shot in the head, buried alive, thrown out a window, and left in a dung heap for three days before being rescued by his cousin.