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TIL that the word “jazz” is a derivative of the west african word “jasm/jism” which means semen, also where the word “jizz” comes from

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N71L8 TIL gorillas usually weigh between 300-500 pounds (136-227 kg), with the heaviest gorilla ever recorded massing 589 pounds (267 kg), and the most overweight captive gorilla only ever reached 683 pounds (310 kg). There is no such thing as an "800 pound gorilla," it never existed.
MeMoA TIL the Tamagotchi won its creators the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics "for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets."
N7NP1 TIL a developer demolished a London pub without permission hoping to build flats in it's place but were forced to rebuild it in facsimile and it's due to reopen soon
p8By8 TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane
Y7j9x TIL Benjamin Franklin considered all Europeans “Swarthy” and he considered only the Saxons as purely white, wishing “their numbers were increased”