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KOvM4 TIL A "Wellerism" is an expression that comedically uses a saying in the wrong situation, such as "We'll have to rehearse that, said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car." or "So I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."
N79NN TIL in January 2018, China implemented its "National Sword" policy, which banned the import of materials for recycling within China. Prior to China’s ban, 95 percent of the plastics collected for recycling in the European Union and 70 percent in the US were sold and shipped to Chinese processors.
d7Zj TIL a father pretending to fall in the Grand Canyon to scare his daughter actually then fell 400 feet.
neAoG TIL that in 1403, at the Battle of Shrewsbury when future King Henry V of England was 16 he was shot in the face by an arrow. The royal physician, while using honey as an antiseptic, crafted a specially designed tool to successfully extract the embedded arrowhead without doing any further damage.
XJ8k TIL that Jodie Foster was so fluent in French that she dubbed her own movies.