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TIL that “Cotton Candy” is called “Fairy Floss” in Australia, “Grandma’s Hair” in Hebrew, “Father’s Beard” in French, “Ghost’s Breath” in Afrikaans, and “Girl’s Hair” in Arabic.

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M7Eeb TIL: There is an 8,000 year old cave painting of a human gathering honey from a natural bee hive
Z8DQa TIL during the Great Depression, the U.S. deported between 400,000 to 2,000,000 people of Mexican heritage. Approximately sixty percent of them were born in the U.S.
9JX TIL there was a plan on July 20th, 2006 for everybody on earth to jump at the same time in an attempt to knock the earth out of it’s orbit and stop global warming
W7BG8 TIL that the first journalist to report the outbreak of the Second World War was a rookie British reporter on her very first week on the job. While travelling along the German–Polish border, she spotted thousands of troops, tanks, and artillery massed for invasion.
DpoY TIL that in the US, SWAT callouts increased from 3,000 in 1980 to over 50,000 in 2006 – and that an estimated 80% of those callouts were to serve warrants on non-violent suspects.