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TIL A scene in Lilo and Stitch had to be changed because of 9/11

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KOMjQ TIL in 2005 the word "Mate" was banned in the Australian Federal Parliament. The ban was revoked within 24 hours.
Jx0m TIL Leonhard Euler was the first mathematician to designate the function by writing it f(x).