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TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War

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9mWQ TIL On 29 September 2008 from one single day $1.2 trillion had been wiped off from the United States stock market. It was the worst single day drop for two decades.
Ogka TIL that Sesame Street’s Count von Count penchant for numbers is not only a pun on his name, but vampire legends often indicate arithomania, or a fixation on counting small objects.
GZDG TIL that 37% of working dads (in the US) would quit their job to stay home with the kids full time if they could. Another 38% would prefer to work fewer hours even if it meant a cut in pay.
RvA8 TIL that Timothy Dexter the 18th century American businessman, writer, and noted eccentric, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough.
R7LV1 TIL “cat zoomies” have a technical name: Frenetic Random Activity Periods or FRAPs. FRAPs are a surprising and sometimes alarming (especially in the middle of the night), yet completely normal, cat behavior