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TIL that gas and diesel nozzles on gas pumps are different sizes

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8Web TIL: when the spanish landed on the Yucatan Peninsula, they asked “where are we?”, to which the indigenous population responded “Yucatan”, meaning “I don’t understand what he just said”
edYk TIL Walt Disney’s last written words were “Kurt Russell”-and no one knows why. Kurt Russell was a child-actor working for Disney at the time, having just signed a ten year contract with the studio.
ObYR TIL that a “fossil word” is a word that is generally obsolete but remains in use because it is part of an idiom. For example, amok as in “run amok”, or turpitude as in “moral turpitude”.
nenZW TIL that Notch, aka Markus Persson, had his PayPal account frozen for a suspicious withdrawal or deposit when he made $750,000 from early Minecrafat sales.
yp7M TIL an Omaha man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Nebraska over its longstanding tradition of releasing balloons into the air after its football team scores a touchdown, alleging the practice violates environmental laws.