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TIL the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.

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EgKad TIL That a German-born cartoonist created a comic strip where Mickey Mouse was sent to a concentration camp, while incarcerated in that camp.
6lg7 TIL A 3rd grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent her to school with a birthday cake and a knife to cut the cake. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon
b9vvQ TIL Cher’s mom told her she should settle down and marry a rich man, to which Cher replied, “Mom, I am a rich man.”
a8VEo TIL: about a derecho, which is a widespread, long-lived, straight line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system. They are very dangerous and can cause hurricane and tornado-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods.
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen