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TIL during WWII, the code word for "Hitler" was "Crazy white man" for the Comanche Code Talkers

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dDmaZ TIL there have been more than 300 flavors of Kit Kat chocolate bars produced in Japan since the year 2000
Ood9X TIL about “dissimilation.” A linguistic phenomenon where people tend to drop an R if it is in the middle of a word and comes before another syllable that has an R. Ex.“suprise”/“surprise,”/“forward”“forward,” /“catepillar”/“caterpillar,” and “paticular”/“particular.”
lve1 TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln.
wLAgo TIL that installing air filters in classrooms have surprisingly significant educational benefits. A few months of air filtering dramatically improves test scores.
l7lA TIL that women can walk around topless in New York