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TIL that the word "pumpernickel" can literally translate to "devil's fart" because of the bread's "reputed indigestibility"

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B9gL TIL that Boba Fett was originally introduced not in Episode V, but in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday TV Special.
rRWx0 TIL despite being worth €37.3 billion the founder of IKEA drove an old Volvo, travelled by economy class, brought a lunch box to work, visited vegetable street markets right before they closed for the day, hoping to get better prices and shopped for clothes at the local flea markets.
D1LQe TIL Aubrey Plaza of "Parks & Recreation" had a stroke at 20 and a "mini-stroke" while on "P&R"
Y5JG TIL: The antechinus, a mouse-like animal, has so much sex that it disintegrates. They are known as semelparous, meaning that sex is a once-in-a-lifetime affair that is usually fatal.
40Kw TIL that during WW2 a Spanish man convinced the Nazis that he was a spy living in London, and fed them false information. This grew to him working for Britain with captured spies, creating a fictional network of other spies, and being awarded a medal from both Britain AND Nazi Germany.