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TIL there's a Japanese proverb that literally translates to "Don't let your daughter-in-law eat your autumn eggplants"

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kJWD7 TIL that Ian Fleming, the author who created the character of James Bond named the first ever Bond girl, Vesper Lynd of Casino Royale, after a cocktail. The drink was a mix of frozen rum, fruit and herbs that Ian had stumbled across in Jamaica.
WaeY TIL that the camel spider, also known as a wind scorpion, is neither a spider nor a scorpion
5YRan TIL On July 13, 1837 Commodore Thompson of the Republic of Texas Navy raised the single star banner under a 23 gun salute and claimed Cozumel for the Republic
kJYl4 TIL in 1971 a radical faction calling itself the Weather Underground claimed credit for a bomb exploding in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.(no injuries, just damages).
QNZb9 TIL the first reference of the phrase 'May the fourth be with you' being used was on May 4, 1979, the day after Margaret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.