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Today I learned that "ground beef" meant beef that has been ground via some sort of grinding process, not beef that came from the land.

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GAVL1 Today I learned that the name Operation Bagration was given by Stalin to honor the name of Pyotr Bagration, who was heavily wounded in the Battle of Borodino. Bagration died after a couple of weeks and he was a Georgian as Stalin.
mxEby TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
rkQe TIL the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies record one song every album while in the nude
xeng TIL The vibrator was the fifth domestic product to be electrified and became so a decade before the vacuum and Iron
7rvBL TIL about Veronica Seider who possessed a visual acuity 20 times better than average. She could identify people at a distance of more than a mile (1.6 km).