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TIL Everybody is allowed to do the Māori Haka dance, but only if done with respect.

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WklaY TIL the only air-to-air kill by an F-15E during Desert Storm was done using a 2000lb bomb, not a missile or rocket.
neyaW TIL a study on cutting in lines found that one person cutting in line has a 54% chance that others in the line will object, and that this jumps to 91.3% when it’s 2 people cutting in line.
kd8E TIL when Paul McCartney stated on The Simpsons “If you play ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ backwards, you’ll hear a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup.”, he wasn’t joking. If you play the version used in the credits backwards, you can softly hear Paul reciting the recipe.
KYb1Q TIL that the dust jacket of a first edition The Great Gatsby, is worth far more than the book.
xG8w TIL- The largest family to survive Auschwitz intact also had more Dwarfs than any other family ever recorded. Josef Mengele arranged for them to have special living quarters since Dwarfs were so hard to find for his experiments.