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TIL That Swatch, the swiss watch company, doesn’t really mean “Swiss watch” but “Second watch”

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l775G TIL The Colorado River has not flowed into the ocean since 1998.
5Y1d9 TIL Instagram only had 13 employees when Facebook bought it for close to one billion dollars in 2012
Egla7 TIL Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. of the USAF was the first American to die in the Vietnam War, but he was not killed in action, he was murdered in Saigon by another American airman, Edward C. Clarke on June 8, 1956.
6Eprw TIL: The Courthouse Square from “Back to the Future” also appeared in many other iconic films including: “Inherit the Wind,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Music Man.” It also shows up in “Bruce Almighty.”
jxpv TIL that there is an annual literature contest that challenges writers to come up with the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.