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TIL that CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”

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e0DXn TIL: As a person quits smoking, residue comes off their lungs and up their nose which now has a heightened sense of smell causing vivid, realistic dreams of smoking
Egvxd TIL that the Crying Indian from the Keep America Beautiful ads in the early 1970s was an Italian American.
BgM7r TIL that a French Soldier called Albert Severin Roche, had personally captured 1,180 prisoners. He was called the "first soldier of France" by allied supreme commander Marechal Foch
e0OlE TIL that the book Esteban Vallejo is reading in "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is made up and named for a production assistant on the film.
0wDKv TIL the Mitsubishi Pajero is called the Montero in Spain because the word 'Pajero' means 'wanker' in Spanish. Love it!