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TIL the act of hesitating when introducing someone because you’ve forgotten their name is called “tartle” (Scottish)

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njA7 TIL Paris Hilton’s grandfather donated 97% of the family fortune and is embarrased of his granddaugher.
mo1O TIL: For his third election in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt ran on his New-Nationalism philosophy, which he defined: “To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”
y11p TIL there was some controversy to the inclusion of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ on the Voyager Golden Record. Carl Sagan was told that rock music was adolescent. Sagan responded, “There are a lot of adolescents on the planet.”
5Y0VR TIL that ducks can adjust their penis size based on how many female ducks are around.
jQGj TIL that after the British broke the enigma code based on a single flaw, they created their own similar code without that same flaw called “Typex”. The German military tried to crack it, but ultimately gave up.