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TIL “goodbye” is actually a contraction for “God be with ye.”

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8WV4 TIL that crows in Tokyo often steal wire coathangers to add to their nests, which cause blackouts when built on power lines
lomX7 TIL that it's possible that weather forecasting has been illegal in the UK until 1951. King Henry VIII outlawed foretelling the weather, since it was regarded as an act of foretelling the future, hence a witchcraft. The Witchcraft Acts which made whichcraft illegal was not repealed until 1951.
GAmG1 TIL That until 2022, the Japanese Public School System forced schoolgirls in Japan were forced to wear specific colours of underwear and were forced to have dyed black hair in school.
Bg6Ne TIL in 2019, a 19-year-old man posed as a 14-year-old boy and got accepted into a British high school. He was asking girls out and changing with boys in PE before authorities discovered his true age.
OoQm6 TIL that the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man was created for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta