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TIL that during World War 2, the US briefly renamed Hamburgers to “Liberty Steaks”. As Hamburgers sounded too German.

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d8wbj TIL that whenever Queen Elizabeth is talking with someone, she uses her handbag to signal coded messages to her staff to indicate how the conversation is going.
GA7O1 TIL Percival Lowell studied planets through the 24 inch Clark telescope and announced his discovery of canals and oases on Mars in 1894, which no other astronomers saw. Lowell used this telescope for the rest of his life and sketched Venus, despite the fact that it has no visible surface features
Y4ZB TIL 35% of polled American workers said they would be willing to forego a significant pay raise in exchange for having their boss fired.
p8Eje TIL that a violent Japanese leftist group, the United Red Army, invaded a ski lodge and took the housekeeper hostage, resulting in a bloody ten-day standoff with the police and the first-ever live 24-hour news coverage in Japan
M71Km TIL of the Yuen Long attack, where hundreds of suspected Triad members, in order to "counter protest" against pro-democracy hong-kong protesters, took to the streets, beating anyone indiscriminately with metal poles and wooden canes.