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TIL about “minced oaths” — a type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression

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wLLM8 TIL The country of Swaziland has banned witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters in 2013
VEkB TIl that Ancient Romans used coins with sex scenes – sprintia, to pay prostitutes for their services.
OGyx6 TIL that before he played Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi played a W.H.O. Doctor (World War Z, 2013)
xVl5k TIL in 'The Shawshank Redemption', Red was serving a life sentence for three murders. He killed his wife by cutting the brake cables on her car. The resulting crash also killed a neighbor and their child.
xvAo TIL the University of Oregon plagiarized the section on plagiarism in its student handbook from the section on plagiarism in Stanford’s teaching handbook.