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TIL in Japanese, the Buddhist term for “refraining from saying bad words” is ‘Fuck’.

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ZmrR TIL Sega created an RPG for the Dreamcast called Segagaga, in which the objective was to keep Sega in the console market.
wrpM TIL Chick-fil-A last year began using chicken raised without antibiotics to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
OoJoR TIL when Facebook changed the report category "Embarassing" to "It's embarassing", it increased the report percentage from 50% to 80%
KOGd6 TIL about the Texas Archive War, in which Texas fought a (small) civil war over the location of official documents
1abb8 TIL that conditions in Louisiana's infamous "Parchman Farm" prison were so bad that in 1952 thirty six prisoners severed their own Achilles tendons out of despair