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TIL the plural, gender-neutral term for “nieces and nephews” is “niblings”

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BoEy TIL there’s an Elvis album called Having Fun With Elvis On Stage that contains no music, only comments made onstage between shows. It was released by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to get around RCA’s ownership of his material.
QJkPd TIL the term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's novel "A Pair of Blue Eyes," serialized in Tinsley's Magazine in 1872-3, in which a protagonists is left literally hanging off a cliff.
8aDkG TIL that steel shortages in WW1 is what led women to abandon the corset and transition into bras as we know them today.
KYQBa TIL The Toy (1982) with Richard Pryor was a remake of Le jouet / The Toy (1976) with Pierre Richard
Kvlw TIL that in the first translation of the New Testament into the modern Scots language, published in 1983, Satan speaks Standard English.