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TIL after the American Revolution the -ville suffix became popular in the names of new US settlements due to an increase of pro-French sentiments.

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5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
j6Vda TIL In Washington State (and likely others) teachers are exempt employees and can legally be paid a salary of $0.00 per year.
jN1OM TIL the U.S. developed a Bat Bomb containing thousands of hibernating bats, each carrying their own timed incendiary device. It was never deployed in war, but during testing the bats got loose and burned down an Air Force base.
xQPb TIL in 2015, Google dropped their old motto “Don’t Be Evil”
LQX0v TIL that the original Japanese name for the game Resident Evil was called Biohazard. Capcom thought the name Biohazard would be impossible to trademark in North America due to other games with the same name. Capcom held an internal company contest to find a new name, and Resident Evil was chosen.