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TIL “The Powerpuff Girls” were originaly called “The Whoopass Girls”

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vP1B TIL the word “Nerd” was invented by Dr. Seuss
N7Ryb TiL The Soviets Reversed engineered an air to air missle when in 1958 a MiG-17 hit by a American Sidewinder missle survived the impact and returned to its base with the missile still embedded in it.
neX9W TIL that each cat species can either purr or roar, but no species can do both.
b8Ya TIL that during WWI, the United States attempted to change words that had German origins. Sauerkraut came to be called “liberty cabbage”, German measles became “liberty measles”, hamburgers became “liberty sandwiches”.
Vx0m TIL when Pink Floyd were designing the iconic ‘Animals’ album cover, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Power Station broke free causing Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights due to a giant flying pig over London.