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TIL The German word for "panic buying" is "Hamsterkauf."

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rBBo TIL that in the 1999 movie the Matrix, Neo’s passport expires on September 11, 2001.
41G6 TIL in 2008 Monty Python decided to start their own Youtube channel. They uploaded HQ videos of their sketches which in only a few days resulted in a 16,000% increase in DVD box set sales.
D1rWg TIL Ruby Bridges, one of the first black children to integrate New Orleans’ all white public school system, is only 66 years old.
X9Ej TIL Eduardo Chibas, pre-revolution Cuban politician, shot himself dead on-air during his weekly radio show as a protest against the corrupt government. He didn’t realise his allotted time was only 25 minutes, and the gesture ended up happening during an advert break instead.
OokaX TIL vintners sold concentrated bricks of wine during prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a bucket in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.