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

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X0okE TIL that in 2022, there were born roughly a million more babies in Nigeria alone, than every single European country combined
DQDgg TIL that while the US Men's "dream team" was dominating basketball in 1992, the women's team actually suffered its only Olympic loss in the past 40 years, and went home with a bronze
d8aMj TIL that Pad Thai, the national dish of Thailand, is actually not a traditional dish, but was invented, standardized and promoted by the Thai government, and imposed upon the people, as part of a broad cultural effort to establish a sense of national identity.
BleW TIL Mel Blanc’s (the voice of almost every Looney Toons character) grave stone in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery has the words “That’s All Folks” written on it.
8a7w8 TIL Foucault put forward the view that the homosexual category did not exist until the 19th century. Although same sex relations have been practiced throughout history, people who practised homosexuality were not classified as homosexuals, and did not think of themselves in terms of sexuality.