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TIL there is no word for “please” in Danish.

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kLWE TIL In SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the two German soldiers who were shot while surrendering durning the intro battle were actually speaking Czech. They were trying to explain that they were prisoners of war being forced to fight for the German army.
WaYd TIL there’s a mushroom nicknamed “Chicken of the Woods” that tastes like, you guessed it, chicken (or sometimes crab or lobster)
rNXp4 TIL The Golden Poison Frog found in the Amazon rain forest, is the most poisonous animal on the planet.They are so toxic that they have few (if any) predators. The indigenous tribes use the toxin for hunting. Secretions from a single frog could kill two bull elephants.
0dmop TIL that music, including the theme, from "Little House on the Prairie" can be heard in the "Bonanza" episode titled "Stallion"
O0n7 TIL when asked about where his bizarre ideas come from, Stephen King explained ‘I have the heart of a small boy … And I keep it in a jar on my desk.’