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TIL that there is a word in Italian “Giacca civetta” meaning “Owl Jacket” which is a term for the second jacket bought with a suit, which is left draped over the back of your chair at work (giving the impression of being there) while you wear the other on the town boozing and wooing women.

R5la TIL the MI6 double agent that inspired James Bond warned the US about Pearl Harbor’s attack over four months before it happened.
4kML6 TIL Courtney Love called out Marilyn Manson and the band Korn for sleeping with underage girls in 2005
QJQDe TIL Dogs drink with the back of their tongue.
rYB0 TIL The Chemical Elements That Make a Human Body is Worth Roughly About $160
D1G4p TIL that a 10yo American Girl became penpals with a 54yo South American Dictator