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TIL: The space age architectural style of the 50s/60s is called Googie and Wildwood, NJ is one of it’s noted districts.

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VBVAB TIL the Dutch word "Swaffelen" (meaning to hit an object or person with one's penis, often repeatedly) won 2008 word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Q6mM TIL Chinese tourists taking boat tours in North Korea purchase small bags of bread and biscuits and throw them on shore for North Koreans to pick up and eat, like at a zoo
QoxE TIL that the original ketchup was a fish sauce and based on the Chinese word for that sauce, and it turns out that in Chinese, “ketchup” also happens to be a homophone for “tomato sauce”, which is what ketchup became.
XyAE TIL During WWII, L Ron Hubbard once led a 68 hour battle against two Japanese submarines which he claimed “definitely sunk, beyond doubt”. An analysis later concluded that there were never any submarines in the area.
JYWLk TIL that child actor Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan and other Disney classics) is buried as an unknown vagrant in a mass grave on Hart island (NYC), and was only identified after his mother, who thought he was still alive, matched his fingerprints to a burial record.