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TIL the name of the automotive company"Jeep" actually derives its name from the military term GP, which stands for General Purpose vehicles.

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Eybp TIL the highest paid CEO in the US made $141,949,280 in 2013. Put another way, he made approximately the average yearly household income in the US…every 3 hours.
J1OK8 TIL about Osama Bin Laden, a rogue bull elephant who killed at least 27 people and wreaked havoc in the Indian state of Assam in the early 2000’s.
PYawe TIL Orville Redenbacher died from drowning in his Jacuzzi.
LQmKV TIL people nowadays spend only around half an hour on average with friends in a day.
ep7RE TIL that the ship's bell of the SS Terra Nova of Robert Falcon Scott's last polar expedition is rung everyday at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge when everyone in the institute is invited for coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon, as is British Tradition.