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TIL the Spanish word for junk mail is “la propaganda.”

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kOBx1 TIL that sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.
gM50b TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s grave. He even refused to leave after 7 days without food. When a man took him home and fed him, he quickly left and ran back to the grave. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him.
5j4P TIL that due to the high intelligence of the octopus, the U.K. Has considered it an honorary vertebrate for the sake of animal cruelty laws.
6AM8 TIL a “factoid” is different than a “fact” - a factoid is a piece of information that is unsupported, completely out of context, or simply untrue but presented as a fact anyway
l6JB TIL the phrase ‘Politically Correct’ was coined by Mao Zedong.