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TIL pretzels are supposed to look like someone praying

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1g0V TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.
ADmZa TIL Nazaré Canyon in Portugal records the Biggest Waves in the World, as high as 100 feet due to an amplifying effect from its Gorge which is 10,000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon.
lo4AV TIL during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small "mouse" hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged "clean" urine samples for those showing their athletes' PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.
pOK8 TIL that four years ago a 71 year old man cared for and nursed a beached penguin back to health and now the bird consistently travels 2,000+ miles every few months to revisit his caregiver.
QRD9 TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”