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TIL Shaggy's real name is Norville Rogers

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W7JEX TIL Persia was renamed Iran after the word “Aryan” which means noble. It’s the same word used by the nazis.
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rmjM TIL that the Georgian word Shemomedjamo means “to eat past the point of fullness because the food tastes so good”. It roughly translates to “I accidentally ate the whole thing".
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