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TIL the color orange was named after the fruit

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DQ7YP TIL about the Swedish Vallhund, a very old dog breed that looks like wolf with Corgi proportions.
aw5Rb TIL SAG Union President Ed Asner's award-winning show "Lou Grant" was cancelled by CBS due to his political activism.
rRNDx TIL that Nintendo sued Galoob to prevent the release of its NES cheating device, the Game Genie; a legal battle followed. But for the Sega Genesis version, Sega not only allowed its release, but officially licensed it.
a0Eb TIL that if you stood every single human being shoulder to shoulder we would fill the entire city of Los Angeles.
oZQL TIL the first assassination attempt on a US President happened today in 1835, thwarted by 2 jammed guns. Andrew Jackson beat the crap out of his failed assassin with the help of (The) Davy Crockett.