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TIL Mayhem is an actual crime and means the intentional maiming of another person.

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GYkPJ TIL Abercrombie created a fictional story about the founding of Hollister saying that, John Hollister, SR. emigrated from New York City to the Dutch East Indies, and established his company once returning to California in 1922. In actuality, the company was founded in Ohio in 2000.
rYZo TIL The largest porn archive in the world belongs to Turkey’s Armed Forces
ep96E TIL: teenage dirtbag is not by weezer
WdoB TIL that the state of Washington could have been named Columbia, but was instead named Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia
NX0OE TIL People who work with cockroaches often develop an allergic reaction to the insects and at the same time develop an allergic reaction to pre-ground coffee from the insects which also get ground with the beans at the factory.