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TIL "claptrap" is literal: it means low-quality writing meant to goad a play's audience into cheap applause

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e0Bvn TIL after watching Snow White together with C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien grew a massive hatred towards Walt Disney, calling him a "cheat" and his works as "vulgar" and "disgusting".
6EblX TIL The longest English word takes three and a half hours to pronounce
PYAjg TIL that archaeologists use the term Before Present, whereby the Present is the 1st of Jan 1950, because after that point in time, we had done so much nuclear testing, that nothing can be reliably carbon-dated anymore.
OGDAX TIL that the USA only has 10 actual fjords, of which 7 are in Alaska, 2 in Washington, and 1 in New York. Norway has 1,190 fjords.
OGa0e TIL this hotel is a self-declared republic in New Zealand, whose past presidents include a goat and a poodle