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TIL Norwegians are using ‘Texas’ as a slang term for 'crazy’

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9wrmX TIL the last Grand Duchess of Russia passed away in 1960 in a small Toronto apartment
JY6Kv TIL steam is an invisible gas. If you can see it, it’s not steam, it is condensation.
kxxW TIL that all of the spent nuclear fuel in the United States could be safely stored in a building the size of a Wal-Mart
mxOZy TIL that many cat shelters will not let you adopt black cats around Halloween for fear that they will be used for posing with costumes or worse, used for ritual slaughter
k68d TIL–As Zelda Fitzgerald, Author F.Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, emerged from the anesthesia after giving birth, Scott recorded Zelda saying, “I hope it’s beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool.” This was a line later used for Daisy Buchanan within the Great Gatsby.