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TIL that the American/Canadian cities called "Carlsbad" were named for the presence of mineral water springs, honoring the Bohemian spa city Karlovy Vary, or Karlsbad in German.

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eo74 TIL that In New Zealand, BMW posted a newspaper advertisement that said bring in your old car and they’ll swap it for a brand new one. No one came as everyone thought this as an April fool prank but, it turns out the offer was real and a lady swapped an old Nissan Avenir for a brand new BMW.
6EW0m TIL about Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, common in children, which leads to different parts of your body feeling out of proportion. It can also make everything feel very far away like you're seeing the world through the wrong end of a telescope, and usually distorts time and sound.
0w0E1 TIL Rolex advertisements always photograph their watches at 10:10:31, and if the clock has a calendar, the date is always Monday 28th.
epna5 TIL a 747 is made up of 6,000,000 parts
lovE7 TIL Spallanzani, an Italian Catholic priest and biologist was one of the first to disprove abiogenesis (life from non-life) by using tight fitted pants on male frogs which lead to failure to copulate and thus failure to reproduce.