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TIL The word “niggard” is not etymologically related to the word “nigger” and it has no racial connotations, yet people still get shit for using it because it sounds similar to the racial slur.

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jPwj TIL that sales of vinyl records have increased since 1993 and continue to increase.
LkZLm TIL that in other countries New Zealand, Belgium, Germany, etc. have their own exotic “American” food isles in grocery stores alot like how America has Mexican and Asian isles in their grocery stores (I lived in America for all of my life obviously)
neMx7 TIL civil twilight is when the geometric center of the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon and ends with sunrise
8agoP TIL Australia had a white people only policy until the 1970s
mN6R TIL in 2006 the FBI convicted a crime family using evidence collected by remotely enabling the microphone on a cellphone. This is called a “roving bug.”