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TIL in the Maori language the name for France is Wiwi (from overhearing the French say "Oui Oui" denoting agreement)

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4XwQX TIL pomeranians used to be much bigger, weighing about 40 lbs (18 kilos). Then Queen Victoria got a tiny one, which immediately became popular. By the time she died 12 years later, the size of the breed had decreased by half.
Nxxb TIL that Scotland once used a currency called ‘The Unicorn’
OLA4 TIL that a high school teacher successfully indoctrinated his class into a pseudo-fascist movement to show how Nazi idealism spread across Germany during WWII.
9oVG TIL that two scientists, fed up with spam-like emails from a certain conference, submitted a research paper that consisted of only the phrase “get me off your fucking email list”. The paper was later accepted for publication by the Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.
J1JEB TIL: That Debtors Prison existed up until 1867 where people were incarcerated for being unable to pay their commercial debts