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TIL In 2008, the Dutch voted ‘Swaffelen’ as word of the year. It means to repeatedly smack one’s penis against something

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VBK5p TIL that Sergeant Bill was a goat who achieved hero status during World War I as a Canadian war hero. Bill was able to hear and warn soldiers of incoming shell explosions, pushing 3 soldiers into a trench within seconds of an incoming shell.
nevbP TIL of the World’s Scariest Haunted House, located in San Diego, California. It has a waiting list of 24,000 people, requires a full evaluation beforehand, waterboards those going through, is completely free of charge, and lasts for eight hours (but nobody has lasted more than 6).
0w96A TIL that in 1973 the CEO of GM dismissed Honda's CVCC technology as only good for "little toy motorcycle engines." Soichiro Honda then bought a Chevy Impala with a 5.7L V8 and had engineers build a CVCC system for it. Flown back to the US, it passed EPA tests without a catalytic converter.
5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
4e4b TIL in 2007, a Yazidi girl was stoned to death by her tribe because of her ties with a Sunni Muslim boy