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TIL the Aussie word Esky (for cooler box or chilly bin) comes from the word Eskimo

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YOKx TIL a company that sells tv antennas sent Comcast a cake to congratulate them on being named worst company in America
DQQNg TIL Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone was created after his planned work about racism in America was refused by networks. This was in response to the murder of Emmett Till.
R9K4 TIL that Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani owns the world’s second most expensive residence in the world, a 27-storey high building containing 21 elevators, 600 staff and 37,000 m2 (400,000 sq ft) of living space. The residence is valued at more than US$ 1 billion.
JdV1 TIL a ‘philodox’ is someone who loves their own opinions.
pepQ TIL that in 1981 Ozzy Osbourne went to a meeting with the head of CBS Europe in Germany so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s glass of wine.