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TIL that the Icelandic word for great-grandchild is barnabarnabarn which directly translated means childechildechild

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N7OLE TIL About "Flarf Poetry." An unconventional and loose form of poetry that utilizes the the Internet to scavenge and conjure up odd and unordinary words or phrases to be implemented in a flarfy marlarky, sometimes horrifying, poem.
ovgr TIL Louis CK asked Donald Rumsfeld, directly, if he was a lizard. Multiple times over the course of 15 minutes. Rumsfeld wouldn’t answer him.
x6EXw TIL a gaming PC can be more efficient than at space heater at heating your room
X0L56 TIL Danny DeVito's short stature is the result of Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia (Fairbank's disease), a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth. He met Rhea Perlman when she went to see a friend in the play The Shrinking Bride, which featured DeVito, and they moved in together 2 weeks later.
8e0oX TIL There's a parasite that affects salmon that is related to jellyfish and is the only multicellular animal that doesn't need oxygen. It's been hypothesized that they initially were jellyfish cancer that escaped their host and evolved separately.