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TIL in ancient India the Krosa, a Sanskrit word, was a unit of measurement defined by the distance at which a cow's moo is heard.

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R69j TIL that as part of the contract for appearing on Shark Tank, if you mention the name of any company you own then Shark Tank automatically owns 5% of that company or gets 2% of the lifetime profits. This is true whether the Sharks make a deal with that person or not, and prevents free advertising.
J1dNQ TIL Hamburgers cooked in Louis Lunch restaurant in New Haven are made on the original cast iron vertical gas broilers from 1898
nWaVB TIL that REO Speedwagon was a real automobile brand (1915)
jNyME TIL that the first Ten Commandments Monuments in the US were created for the purpose of promoting a Paramount Pictures film by Cecil B. DeMille in 1956
9wkgG TIL: The POWs who met with Jane Fonda in 1972 have confirmed that they never handed her slips, and the one man routinely mentioned never met Jane Fonda. It has been debunked as early as 1975.