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TIL “kummerspeck” is a German word that means excess weight gained through emotional overeating and literally translates to “grief bacon”.

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wLR01 TIL The 45th POTUS's grandfather made his initial wealth by opening a dead horse meat tent restaurant, and brothel, for miners during the Gold Rush in Canada, and the only reason he was in America at the time was because he had been banished from Bavaria for fleeing military conscription
Yr9x TIL Chairman Mao told the Japanese PM in 1972 not to apologise for what Japan did in WW2 because they destroyed the Nationalists and helped them come to power.
5Y9Ok TIL that the character Danny Trejo plays in the Spy Kids series is canonically the same person as his character in Machete. The Spy Kids' uncle is actually a paid assassin in his own series of R-rated movies.
E1jPp TIL men and women used to compete against each other in skeet shooting at the Olympics, until a woman won in 1992. Since then, the event has been split by gender.
GkaE TIL That Michael Jordans best friend is the limo driver who gave him a lift when he first arrived in Chicago back in 1984.