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TIL that Waving with your palm open is considered an insult in Greece. This gesture is called Moutza and it might get a local going loco if you wave at him/her that way.

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LJP0 TIL cats with the top part of an ear cleanly cut off is a marking of a feral cat that has been trapped, neutered, and released to control population
9Y69m TIL in the 1980s the Naval Investigative Service misunderstood the euphemism "a friend of Dorothy" and believed there was actually a woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of gay military personnel. They searched for her in the hopes she would reveal names of gay military members.
VMQrp TIL that in addition to temperature control, spacesuits are white so astronauts are easier to spot against the darkness of space
J1NxQ TIL: Banks in Finland stopped issuing cheques in 1993, The Netherlands in 2002 and Denmark in 2017.
J7b1 TIL In a sunset plane ride from NYC to LA, if you flew 850 mph you would cancel Earth’s rotation, freezing the Sun on the horizon