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TIL A female lumberjack is called a lumberjill

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YpXZP TIL : British Submarines carry the Jolly Rodger because a First Lord Sea Admiral said that submarines are ""underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and their sailors should be hanged as Pirates
AMkg TIL due to the interrogation techniques of the Soviets an innocent was executed for a serial killer’s first murder, and many others confessed to the subsequent killings. Four committed suicide due to the investigators’ tactics. The killer killed at least 53 over 12 years before being caught.
abm9 TIL it is illegal to tattoo in South Korea if you are not a licensed medical doctor.
j6GEQ TIL Shortly before Paris was captured by the Nazis in 1940, French engineers cut the lift cables to the Eiffel Tower. German soldiers had to climb the entire tower in order to hoist their flag... which blew away after just few hours. Hitler himself was unable to make the climb when he visited.
WbWL TIL that TMZ once paid $80k for an unflattering video of Justin Bieber dropping the N-word, then leveraged it for smaller, exclusive scoops about the singer.