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TIL that Greek yoghurt is simply regular yoghurt that’s been strained

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Z81gv TIL that The Hoover Company had a free flights promotion in the 90s: customers were offered free return tickets to the USA if they purchased at least $120 worth of products; it ended in disaster and the company is said to have cancelled the promotion and reneged on its offers, leading to litigation.
J1n6m TIL the Intracostal Waterway is a 3,000 miles (4,800 km) federally maintained, navigable toll-free shipping route that runs along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts in the southern and eastern United States
pYeNe TIL bully sticks are just dried bull penises
YpMvr TIL all chaps are by definition assless chaps
e0v14 TIL that the name of Monaco, the second-smallest and wealthiest country in the world, comes from the Greek "μόνοικος", "single house", which bears the sense of a people either settled in a "single habitation" or of "living apart" from others