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TIL nude means “unclothed” while naked means “unprotected”

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jNLVN TIL that Trey, famous for his 'basketball game tomorrow' on Vine, did not only win the match, but also beat cancer after being diagnosed at just 11
M7ea0 TIL That the United Fruit Company spent over half a million dollars back in 1950 (almost 6 million in 2022) to convince lawmakers and the American public that the Guatemalan government needed to be overthrown. President Truman eventually authorized the CIA to effect a Guatemalan coup d'état in 1952.
RG61 TIL of the Battle for Castle Itter where defected Wehrmacht soldiers requested the help of American soldiers to help defend the castle from the Waffen-SS, who planned to execute the French VIP’s inside. It is the only known battle in World War II where the German and American armies fought together.
x69R1 TIL BBC developed a written form for West African Pidgin. Pidgin has 75 million speakers in West Africa but did not have a standard written form prior to this. E.g. ,"Wen be Eid al-Fitr and how dem dey decide di date?"
0dONM TIL of the role of Groom of the Stool, which was initially responsible for supplying their king with a toilet stool, bowl, water, towels, and physically cleaning their anus