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TIL about Contranyms. Terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.

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x6711 TIL about the "Night Witches", a regiment of female fighter pilots in the Red Army. Relegated only to outdated biplanes, they nonetheless struck fear into invading German forces.
yVPeJ TIL the band Slayer's album God Hates Us All was released on September 11, 2001, and school children subsequently got in trouble for wearing some promotional T-shirts that read “GOD HATES US ALL: 9-11-01.”
DQOLV TIL Glenn Close's father was a surgeon who worked in Africa with ebola, as well as a very tiny town in Wyoming.
Z8dpv TIL that conjoined twins occur approximately once in every 50,000 to 60,000.