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TIL “vegetable” is a culinary term, not a botanical term.

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neLB TIL that one of Australia’s most decorated snipers was initially barred from joining the Army during WW1 because of his race. He was only accepted after a recruitment officer reclassified him as “White.”
x6aXD TIL that on 15th August 1939, two weeks before the outbreak of Ww2, the luftwaffe lost 13 Ju-87 Stuka in a minute. The incident is know as "Nuehammer Stuka Disaster".
R57vw TIL that serial killer Richard Cottingham worked in the same office as another serial killer, Rodney Alcala, in 1969, though the two denied being aware of each other.
9yKM TIL spelling bees are a particularly American/British phenomenon. Other languages spell their words so intuitively that one can easily spell them just by hearing them. English, on the other hand, contains Latin, Greek, Germanic, etc. roots, not to mention whole words borrowed from other languages.
b8Aa TIL that, according to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path to conceal where Gengis Khan was finally buried.