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TIL that the name of the company LEGO comes from the Danish phrase "leg godt", which means "play well". Interestingly, the Latin word "lego" means "I put together", but this is just a coincidence - when LEGO first started, it only made wooden toys.

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J1dgj TIL there is a village in India. Where people believe that they are descendants of soldiers of Alexander's army. And they are last pure aryan blood tribe. Many women from Germany and europe travel there to get pregnant and have a baby with aryan genes.
leR7 TIL that New York municipal authorities will implement a plan for mass sterilization of the city’s rats, using a chemical to neutralize the reproductive systems of female rats.
jy4j TIL that 70 percent of the world have never met a Jewish person.
Wkmb9 TIL that the dress worn by Katrina at the end of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was just a white silk dress drawn on with magic marker to give it its black stripes.
LkQMd TIL of the "Niihau Incident". After a Japanese Pilot crashed on a remote Hawaiian Island following Pearl Harbor, three Japanese Americans tried to help him escape, taking locals hostage and shooting at one. Their actions may have influenced the decision to intern Japanese Americans during WWII.