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TIL there was an armed group of Philipines called MILF

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wODP TIL that in the second Matrix movie, Agent Smith’s license plate is “IS 5416”, which refers to Isaiah 54:16 from the Bible: “Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.”
MRJ0 TIL there is a term for “cousin killing,” just not a single one because Latin has distinct words for paternal and maternal cousins. They would be “patruelicide” and “sobrinicide” respectively.
9wyv6 TIL that McDonald’s redesigned their coffee stirrers because they were being used as cocaine spoons. In fact, in some cities a dose of coke was referred to as a McSpoon. Today, instead of small spoons, McDonalds has flat paddles for stirring coffee.
awNEo TIL Andrea Bocelli has been blind since he was 12, when he was hit in the eye by a soccer ball which caused a brain hemorrhage. Doctors tried leeches as a last resort but unfortunately were unsuccessful.
V0Z8 TIL that upon his second defeat to Alexander the Great, King Darius III of Persia offered Alexander 30,000 talents (780 tons of silver, worth around £500,000,000 today) as part of an unconditional surrender. Alexander refused and proceeded to conquer Persia and rule all the way up to the Himalayas.