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TIL RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome) is when an acronym has a repeating word commonly placed after it. Eg: RAS syndrome

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1aYld TIL Roy Orbison wrote the biggest hit of his career after asking his first wife, Claudette, if she needed cash for the market. His writing partner interjected “pretty women don’t need money.” As Orbison watched Claudette go to the market by “walking down the street”, he wrote “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
Qao9 TIL left-spiraling snails are generally as rare as left handed humans, especially because left and right spiraled snails can’t mate together easily, but in Japan snakes gobble up righties easily but can’t bite into the lefties, so there are way more lefties.
nWexP TIL about Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, who enlisted as a male in the Union Army in 1863, fought in 40 engagements. He maintained his male name and expression after the war until his death in 1915, and is the first documented transmale who served in the US Army.
Bro4b TIL the Indian city of Aurangabad was founded by an African immigrant named Malik Ambar in 1610 who was a freed slave and had become the Prime Minister of the Deccan Sultanate
6dMw TIL that in 1908 the Russian team turned up 12 days late to the Olympics because they had yet to start using the Gregorian calendar.