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TIL that "genius" is spelled without an "o" , unlike the word "ingenious".

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9bYp TIL that a bilingual individual can be dyslexic in one language, but not the other
MeX50 TIL that when Parker pens entered the Mexican market, their slogan of ‘‘It won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you’’ was mistranslated and so the ad read: “It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”
Agda TIL Mountain Dew’s first slogan was, “Ya-Hoo Mountain Dew. It’ll tickle your innards.”
N9DP TIL that the dog who played Wishbone on the 1990s children’s show of the same name was named Soccer and was a veteran television commercial actor before appearing on the series. He lived from 1988 to 2001 and is buried on the Plano, Texas ranch where Wishbone was filmed.
Lk6Xv TIL in Maori myth Maui tried to make man immortal by turning into a worm and entering the vagina of the goddess of death while she slept, to reverse the path of birth. A bird laughed at this and woke the goddess, who crushed Maui with her vagina’s obsidian teeth, making Maui the first man to die.