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TIL that Moët should be pronounced mow-et and not mow-ay.

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awP7y TIL of Aarne-Thompson–Uther Index, a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies, dividing tales into sections with an AT number for each entry, with the same tale type number referred to by its central motif or the variant folktales of that type, and related tales were grouped together
rO7M TIL the two 3000 year old bog people they found in Scotland were actually “Frankenstein” bodies made from six different skeletons
W77Ad TIL more than 35,000 Americans served in the Canadian Army in WWI, accounting for nearly 10% of all Canadian soldiers
W9MY TIL that cretin, the first word used to describe a mental handicap, comes from the French word for Christian
KYNYR TIL that the CIA overthrew Irans last elected President paving the way for the Iran that we know today.