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TIL a pejorative German name for the British is Inselaffe, which means ‘island monkey’.

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4XbRa TIL for nearly a century, Jimmy Red corn was used by bootleggers to make moonshine whiskey. The variety nearly went extinct in the early 2000s, but two remaining ears of corn were used to revive it.
jBAj TIL there is a high school in Arizona which uses “Redskins” as its mascot name. It is nearly 100% Navajo.
YpdPZ TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.
awMOA TIL in 1927, a 12-year-old boy rode along with stunt pilot Doug Davis, throwing Baby Ruth candy bars down over a racetrack as part of a promotion. The boy loved the experience, and would grow up to be a pilot… of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
XExMj TIL of the Chagossians, an ethnic group who lived on an isolated island chain until they were evicted by the UK so that the US could build a military base.