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TIL Breyer’s has cheapened up on the ingredients they use so much that it is no longer “Ice Cream”. They have to call it “Frozen Dairy Dessert”.

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yQB88 TIL the use of Hun as a pejorative term for Germans comes from a speech made by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900 to troops going to fight the Boxer Rebellion in which he referenced Attila and his Huns making themselves feared in China
D1Dlp TIL that Lithuanian words are similar to Sanskrit such as (L|S) UGNI|AGNI for fire, DEIVA|DEVA for gods, SAKA|SHAKHA for branch, AKIS|AKSHA for eyes, DANTIS|DANTA for tooth, DIENA|DINA for day, RATAS|RATHA for chariot, JANTIS|JAATI for tribe, VYRA|VEERA for man, MENESIS|MAASA for month!
59WB TIL Brazil gets 85% of it’s energy from renewable sources
Wkr7L TIL that in Texas (2015) only 16% of county judges have a license to practice law and 17% had even graduated from a law school.
wLgEW TIL that popular actor and comedian Chevy Chase got his stage name from a 15th century English poem called The Ballad of Chevy Chase, which tells the story of the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases.