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TIL "tutti frutti" means "all the fruits" in Italian.

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QJd6a TIL A woman named Glenda Blackwell bought a scratch off lottery ticket to prove to her husband that buying lottery tickets was a waste of money but ended up winning $1 million.
JpbV TIL Judge Cicconetti of Ohio dispenses what he calls creative justice. He has sentenced a man who stole from the Salvation Army to spend 24 hours homeless, a woman who abandoned 35 kittens in a forest to spend a night in the woods, & noisy neighbours to listen to classical music instead of rock
BgO0d TIL The XNBL-1 "Barling Bomber" was an experimental American bomber that was nicknamed “Mitchell's Folly". It was so underpowered that on a flight from Dayton, Ohio to an airshow in Washington, DC, it failed to achieve enough height to get over the Appalachian Mountains and had to turn around.
GAlpJ TIL Alexander the Great was sieging the island of Tire until he decided to turn it into a Peninsula
W7gmd TIL that our brain generates more electrical impulses in one day than all the telephones in the world