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TIL the word "Scuba" is an acronym for 'Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

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0w6JR TIL that the movie "Mystery Team" was written by Donald Glover and his comedy group from college called Derrick Comedy. It is also the film debut for Donald Glover, Aubrey Plaza, Ellie Kemper, Ben Schwartz, and Bobby Moynihan.
4XX TIL A 16 year old Morocan girl committed suicide after a judge forced her to marry the man who raped her. It was to perserve the honor of her family and for the rapist to avoid prosecution (10-20 years).
X0Gjj TIL in South Korea, only blind people can get a masseur's license. This law was established in 1912, to help visually impaired people earn a living. It was upheld by their Constitutional Court in 2008.
G884 TIL that in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” a character recognizes a woman’s handwriting by saying “Her c’s, her u’s, and her t’s!”, subtly spelling out the word “cunt” (“and” = n), hence the next line, “And thus she makes her great p’s!” (“pees”)
0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.