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TIL The Maori word for France is Wīwī - a play on the French 'oui, oui'

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wED6 TIL that pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
wLkj1 TIL that Members of Congress have been receiving free copies of the magazine Hustler every month since 1983.
Z8JJQ TIL prohibition agent Izzy Einstein bragged that he could find liquor in any city in under 30 minutes. In Chicago it took him 21 min. In Atlanta 17, and Pittsburgh just 11. But New Orleans set the record: 35 seconds. Einstein asked his taxi driver where to get a drink, and the driver handed him one.
xVj8b TIL in 1969 Penn State student Betsy Aardsma was doing research in the campus library when she was stabbed in the chest. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, paramedics thought that she had a seizure before she died. The case is still unsolved.
PYewJ TIL Lincoln originally invited Ulysses S. Grant and his wife to the Ford Theater. Grant accepted, but later backed out because their wives' hated each other. If Grant had gone, his security detail would likely have prevented Lincoln's assassination.