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TIL Benjamin Franklin Wanted the National Bird To Be A Turkey

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LQdgr TIL Chinese residents called their settlements as Tong Yan Gai, or Street of the Tong. This referred to how Cantonese people were brought into the Chinese Empire during the Tang dynasty
VBoEm TIL Quebec French swear words are based on words and expressions related to Catholicism
pYM1Q TIL your eyes rotate torsionally in their sockets durring head tilt and its not just post processing by our brain!
5VdNk TIL the first widely-reported recipe for "dishwasher fish" was presented by horror icon Vincent Price on a 1975 episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He called it "a dish any fool can prepare".
DpWe TIL Ben Franklin wrote a scientific essay about farts called “Fart Proudly”