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TIL the German word, waldeinsamkeit, has no equivalent in English, and means “the feeling of being alone in the woods”.

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50l8 TIL New Zealand Victoria Cross recepitant James Ward, won it for actions during a raid over Germany on 7 July 1941. When his aircraft was set on fire, Ward crawled out onto the wing, several thousand feet in the air, and smothered the flames out. The bomber made it back
Me5r8 TIL a prisoner of war from Belfast, Northern Ireland used the irish language in his diary, to hide senstive material from his Japanese captors.
BrywK TIL of Hyperparasites; parasites that evolved to parasitize other parasites.
awWM9 TIL of the "Happy ending problem", named that way because it led to the mathematician who proposed it, Esther Klein, and the one who solved it, Georges Szekeres, marrying each other.
v1wdK TIL The legal definition of a 'sandwich' differs across the USA. In California, a hot dog is a sandwich. In Massachusetts, a burrito is not a sandwich. The USDA defines a sandwich as meat between two slices of bread and says a burrito is a 'sandwich like product.' New York has another definition.