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TIL There's a 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown

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E1NAP TIL that the lyrics in Le Freak by CHIC originally contained the words “fuck off” rather then “freak out”. They got the idea after being denied entry to a club and the bouncer told them to “fuck off”. The lyrics were changed since they couldn’t say fuck on the radio.
R76G4 Today I learned that Jesus’ real name translates from Hebrew to English as Joshua, but repeated translations left us with “Jesus.”
VMb9D TIL of Guang Bing, a beloved Chinese bagel credited with winning a war against the Japanese 500 years.
r8b0 TIL LOTR dwarves are supposed to speak with Arabic or Hebrew accent, resulting in dwarven place names like Khazad-dûm and Moria, not Scottish as per popular culture today.
l7j5K TIL that the French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871.