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pg8Z TIL that Trader Joe’s, a tiki-nautical themed chain of grocery stores, is owned by Aldi.
R5dR6 TIL Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was noted for her piety. “While tending to a woman with cancerous breast sores, she was disgusted. Intending to overcome that disgust, she gathered the sore pus into a ladle and drank it.”
oGjL TIL the middle finger has been used as a derogatory gesture for at least 2400 years, with the middle finger representing a phallus and the ring and index fingers representing testicles.
4Xnm5 TIL the 1992 Joe Pesci comedy My Cousin Vinny is praised by legal experts as being one if the most accurate film depictions of courtroom procedure and trial strategy. It is even cited in textbooks on law.
l7b7A TIL that the “Mudokon Pops!” logo in Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee originally showed a severed Mudokon head on a stick, but it was changed for the Japanese release due to cultural sensitivities.