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TIL courts are increasingly turning to website Urban Dictionary to clarify modern slang language. It has notably been used in a supreme court sexual harrassment case in Tennessee in 2013.

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4WGg TIL “supper” and “dinner” are not interchangeable, but determine the size of the meal. Dinner is the largest, most formal meal
4ymg TIL The White House has an estimated market value of over $390 million, and would cost $2 million a month to rent.
5YkQn TIL in the 1950s Rebecca Webb Carranza owned a tortilla factory that sometimes made misshappen tortillas. Instead of throwing them out she cut them into triangles, fried them, and sold bags of them in the Mexican Deli. She's credited for introducing tortilla chip into modern food culture.
xVKyb TIL King Tutankhamun was mummified with an erection. It broke off soon after his discovery.
E1GYP TIL that isolated towns in arctic regions literally have nowhere to send their trash, so they have to be creative in how they dispose of and store it