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4jvX TIL that words that are similar to (either in sound or meaning) but are not quite profanities (ie. frickin’) are called “minced oaths.”
69VnW TIL That this bird is called Smoke Bird because after six calls the seventh will be puffed with smoke.
XvWr TIL that in Japan, the sales of adult diapers have surpassed the sales of baby diapers.
WkPBd TIL a Belgian businessman was instrumental to the Manhattan Project's success. Realizing uranium's importance, he shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he simply responded: "You can have the ore now. It is in New York. I was waiting for your visit"
GAn71 TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.