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TIL A breastfeeding son “spotted cancer” in mother by refusing to feed from breast with cyst.

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oRBv8 TIL in the 1990s, the New Jersey Nets asked the NBA to change their name to the Swamp Dragons. The league spent $500,000 to protect the name. The NBA owners voted 26-1 to approve the change. The Nets were the lone no vote, who changed their mind, infuriating then commissioner David Stern.
PMnO TIL that in Ojibwe (a Native American language), “Kansas” translates to “Little Hell-Hole”.
p8rlQ TIL about Kushim, the earliest known example of a named person in human history. He lived some 5,000 years ago and evidence suggests that he was an accountant.
RNXa TIL the Navajo Native Americans called Hitler “he who smells his mustache”
OGoj6 TIL about the "Moranbong band", the first all-girls DPRK-Pop band of North Korea, formed by the state, as a response to the success of South Korean music all over the world.