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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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Eg1YP TIL The phrase "If you see something, say something" was created by New York cities MTA in response to 9/11.
N7lm6 TIL that East Germany had an entire political party for former Nazis
rROke TIL: Steven Spielberg's film, "The Terminal" is based on a real man named Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in Terminal One in Charles de Gauile Airport for 18 years
YAeZ TIL the original US Constitution set no term limits on the President. George Washington voluntarily retired from office after two terms, establishing an informal two-term limit. This custom lasted for nearly 150 years until FDR broke the tradition.
E1e7p TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.