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today I learned about the home children from the uk sent to australia and canada as indentured servants and abused

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W7kWN TIL that Toyota is headquartered in the city of Toyota, Japan and was founded there, but is not named after the city. In fact, the city (originally called Koromo) renamed itself after the company in 1959, because Toyota had become so famous.
P1XoE TIL "blue balls" is a real disease known as Epididymal Hypertension
OoAW7 TIL that Karl Berg found after recording parrots, that parent parrots name their children and those names are used through life.
VBooB TIL the expression "streets ahead" is an English phrase dating back to the nineteenth century, not something made up by the writers on Community.
rP4w TIL the US presidential veto has a 96% success rate. Of 2574 vetoes Congress has only overturned 111.