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TIL Chris Rock did a comedy sketch "revealing" OJ Simpson's hypothetical confession a decade before the novel "If I Did It".

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wLbmP TIL in an early draft of Lord of the Rings, Frodo was named Bingo Bolger-Baggins

yVBM TIL Since Latin had no general word for “yes”, the French created one out of the latin words for “that is it” (hoc ille>oil>oui) and the Spanish created one out of the latin word “thus” (sic>si)

v1PdB It’s true that the plains of Kansas are a more familiar backdrop for tornadoes than Times Square, but the funnels can form just about anywhere if the conditions are right.

OoEmY TIL Mohamed Mrabet, a storyteller and the first Moroccan "writer" to get a book published in France, is illiterate.

LKJp TIL there is a word: “Mamihlapinatapai”, from the Yaghan language, which is considered the most succint and hardest word to translate: it means: “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.”