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TIL the term "ass clown" was coined by, and has become a part of our lexicon, courtesy of the movie Office Space

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R5aeQ TIL: Chechen is a language that originally used an Arabic script, then Latin, and finally Cyrillic starting in 1938. Despite being written in Cyrillic, it maintains the sounds and pronunciations of Arabic.
ADWRg TIL that Niki Lauda asked his fellow drivers in 1976 to boycott the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring due to safety concerns even after he was the fastest on the track. Fellow drivers declined and Lauda suffered a crash in the second lap which left him with half face and scalp burned.
ZpJV4 TIL that Jeffrey Katzenberg told his employees at Quibi to listen to the song "Get Back Up Again" from the movie Trolls while announcing that they would be fired
XwZQ TIL that the Soviet Union attempted to domesticate moose for use in a cavalry.
NXXbb TIL that Alzheimer’s disease can be caused by a brain immune response to herpes infection. This theory dates to the early 1900s, but was ignored because the scientist was Jewish, while Alzheimer, who named the disease, was German.