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TIL Fiancé refers to a Male & Fiancée refers to a female
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TIL that TV stations in Montana and Michigan were hacked in 2013 to broadcast bogus emergency alerts about zombies. The Montana alert said "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living." The Michigan stations said the hacks were traced to "an overseas source."
R7wa1
TIL that Tug of War (not a masturbatory reference) was once an Olympic Sport. It was dropped after the Antwerp games in 1920 after a number of controversies.
Q799
TIL Evelyn Beatrice Hall is the one who said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
5Ybwk
TIL that NYC once had a "Divorce Coercion Gang" made up of Ultra Orthodox Jews who would kidnap and torture Jewish men who were refusing to divorce their wives
1MOD
TIL 9% of school-aged children are diagnosed with ADHD and medicated in the US, compared with 0.5% in France. The discrepancy comes from differences in treatment. France found that changing social context, not prescribing drugs, mitigated the behavioural problems in the majority of cases.