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

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a8PeZ TIL, Bobby Brown’s Don't Be Cruel was the best-selling album of 1989 in the United States, and finished number one on the Billboard Year-End album chart. Eventually the album sold 12 million copies worldwide in less than a decade.
9YV7m TIL that Walt Disney was presented with one normal sized honorary Oscar and seven little Oscars for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1938.
KOgrR TIL that most "close door" elevator buttons in the US are disabled due to the Americans with Disabilities Act that requires people with disabilities to be able to get into elevators safely.
5Vx5D TIL Óscar Taveras, whom Baseball America ranked as the third-best prospect in all of baseball in 2013, died in a car accident at the age of 22. His BAC was 0.287, nearly six times the legal limit for the Dominican Republic.
6E4G8 TIL The Allies considered bombing Auschwitz in an effort to stop operations at the concentration camp.