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TIL that ‘Flyting’ was medieval England's version of a rap battle, in which participants would exchange witty and insulting verses.

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69dr7 TIL that the name “Sahara” is derived from the Arabic word for “desert”. The Sahara desert is the desert desert.
XEa8R TIL the US police once fire bombed a black neighborhood by dropping explosives from a chopper, burning down 61 houses in Philadelphia
X06dr TIL bezoars, a symptom of gastroparesis, had magical powers in the Harry Potter books but are big masses of food that can block the stomach
VNw4 TIL that Masao Yoshida, the plant manager at Fukushima in 2011, disobeyed orders to stop pumping seawater into the nuclear reactor. This stopped a greater disaster that would have affected millions of lives.
Djwv TIL all tortoises are actually turtles and calling a tortoise a turtle is not wrong.