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TIL The word “electrocute” is a combination of the words electro and execute, meaning you were killed by electricity. So if you don’t die, you were not electrocuted, you were shocked.

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6b5w TIL that when sailors in the Navy pass over the equator for the first time, there is a “Crossing the Line” ceremony and the sailors receive the title “Shellbacks” and “Sons of Neptune.” They get a certificate and its “signed” by Davy Jones and Neptune.
b67Xa TIL brussels sprouts used to have a bitter taste until breeders in the 90s started to cross-pollinate different varieties in order to remove the chemicals that caused the bitterness. The result of their work has lead to brussels sprouts's recent culinary popularity.
awRdJ TIL There was a taboo against cunnilingus in Ancient Rome. A man who performed it on a woman was subject to mockery and there's a number of humorous graffiti about it, with one of them insulting a local candidate for office as "cunt licker"
NXg7e TIL Rhode Island is home to the world’s largest artificial bug
rP4 TIL British bombers bombed wooden German decoy airplanes 1944. With wooden decoy bombs.