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TIL there is no word for ‘love’ in the language of Luxembourg

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yQQmM Yes, but they never lose that slender figure.
LkEGr TIL the FCC prohibits the phrase "Jesus Christ" from being said on network TV as an exclamation/expletive; you can say "Jesus", you can say "Christ", but you can't say "Jesus Christ" unless he's literally on screen as the man from the Bible. The term "goddamn it" is also banned from U.S. network TV.
rRyjW TIL about The Mariko Aoki phenomenon in Japan. It's the urge to defecate that is suddenly felt after entering bookstores
8ar14 TIL of the Circumcellions, a 4th century Christian sect. They believed that the greatest Christian virtue was martyrdom, so they attacked random people with clubs while praising God in the hopes that they would be killed by their victims.
rRw51 TIL that the employees of Disney land worked in such terrible conditions they referred to the park as “Mauschwitz” until managers discovered the employee lingo and banned use of the word for being un-Disney-like. Within an hour the staff switched to “Duckau”