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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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E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.
KOpBG TIL that 18th century France developed a visual telegraph system. Using a series of towers topped with adjustable beams that would display a message and instructions on the next tower to relay it to, messages could be sent across the country in a mere matter of hours, long before electricity.
OG0V6 TIL that the American folk song Turkey In The Straw (the "ice cream truck song") originated in minstrel shows, where it often contained severely bigoted language
MedM7 TIL that in history 24 popes were allegedly active sexually; 7 popes were legally married, and at least 15 had children.
ne7gY TIL: FDR is related – by blood or marriage – to a total of eleven presidents: Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Madison, Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Van Buren, Grant, and Taft.