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TIL the US plan to convince North Korean pilots to defect for a cash reward was called “Operation Moolah”

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QoxE TIL that the original ketchup was a fish sauce and based on the Chinese word for that sauce, and it turns out that in Chinese, “ketchup” also happens to be a homophone for “tomato sauce”, which is what ketchup became.
Oo1re TIL of 'Bardcore'. A spin off from Nightcore, it is medieval inspired remakes of hit pop and rock songs.[
8eQLV TIL a zoologist figured out the lifecycle of the parasitic intestinal worm Ascaris Lumbricoides in 1879 by purposely swallowing eggs discovered in a human corpse infected with the worms
GA7jQ TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.
oBY7o TIL: Nazi Prisoners built a raft and escaped their POW camp. Only to find that the Salt River had run dry.