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TIL University of Washington students created an artificial intelligence program to detect “that’s what she said” jokes.

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lw7N TIL “fylleangst” (pronounced foola angst) is a unique Norwegian word to describe “Drunk anxiety”, which is the unsettling feeling one has the day after drinking when you can’t remember what you did, how you acted or god forbid, who may have seen you.
yQk8J TIL that there exists Free Beer, a beer whose recipe you can freely modify since the beer is open source. Currently, the beer is at version 6.0.
KYOG4 TIL 20% of the population of the Six Nations tribes fought in WW2. The Choctaw language baffled German codebreakers, and Iroquois, who had officially declared war during WW1 and never made peace, officially declared war on Germany again during WW2.
Wk8JX TIL: Baseball umpires are required to wear black under pants in the rare event that their pants split.
jNYmR TIL of Bloody Sunday (1920) when 14 Irish civilians were killed in Croke Park during a Gaelic Football match when British forces opened fire on the players and the crowd.