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TIL that, in 2004, a single 13-year-old was banned from using the word "grass" anywhere in England and Wales

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wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.
R5db6 TIL Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in bringing Macaroni And Cheese to the United States after encountering it in Paris. The dish was prepared by James Hemings, a classically trained French chef enslaved by Jefferson.
OGl06 TIL the Android operating system almost failed to release due to a lack of early funding. With the team facing eviction, Steve Perlman gave $10,000 cash and an undisclosed amount for seed funding, saving the team. Perlman refused a stake, saying he only did it because he "believed in the thing."
E1DRw TIL In Samoa it is illegal to forget your wife’s birthday.
mxl4P TIL “bird’s nest custody” is a specific form of joint custody in which, rather than having the children go from one parent’s house to the other parent’s house, the parents move in and out of the house that the children constantly reside in.