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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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lE7K TIL that during the search for one of the girls Ariel Castro kidnapped a psychic told her mother that her daughter was dead and “in water”. The mother of the daughter was devastated and took down all flyers of her daughter and died in 2006 before her daughter was later found alive in 2013.
e0ap4 TIL about the Kogi tribe, an indigenous people who choose their priests at birth and raise them in a dark cave for a decade to connect them to the earth.
N7GY1 TIL of John Wojtowicz, a bank robber who constructed his plans after watching scenes from The Godfather, which starred Al Pacino. He engaged in a 12 hour standoff with police, culminating in his capture. His exploits were turned into a movie, in which he was played by Al Pacino.
l7GNA TIL sea mammals get their water from their food.
awlBb TIL that Sigmund Freud believed that addictions to substances such as cocaine and tobacco were excellent substitutes for masturbation, which he considered "the one great habit."