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TIL the word "vodka" comes from the Slavic word for water.
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TIL that Steven Crowder, known for his conservative views, commentary, and being the man in the "change my mind" meme, voiced The Brain on on the PBS Kids show Arthur between 2000-2001.
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TIL of the British warship the HMS Shannon that captured the USS Chesapeake during The War of 1812. The Shannon’s unimpressive appearance which was on the expressed order of the captain Philip Broke, fooled the enemy into vastly underestimating her highly well trained crew.
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TIL During WWII the Japanese were responsible for killing 500,000 Chinese by using insect "Yagi Bombs" which consisted a two compartment, one with houseflies and another with a bacterial slurry.
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TIL the song "867-5309/Jenny" produced a glut of prank calls to unlucky folks who happened to have that phone number across the country
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TIL that Disney is contractually required to air televangelist Pat Robertson's show The 700 Club, because Robertson's organization originally owned the cable TV channelstation that is now Freeform.