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TIL that monkeys are used to pluck coconuts in Thailand

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yQB4J TIL: There are no names given to the numbers between googol, skewer’s number, centillion, and googolplex. And, there is apparently no Global agreement on naming large numbers.
e1Vk TIL that 25% of US Presidents were raised without a father.
awLVJ TIL That in 2017, the Turkish State destroyed a Cemetery of Kurdish Fighters, dug up the remains of 282 of them, and had them "reburied" in plastic boxes on top of each other under a pavement at a Jewish Cemetery in Istanbul in a section for the nameless, far away from their relatives.
N6mE TIL that big educational companies like Pearson have allowed plugs (ads) for consumer products in their standardized tests
x6Jv1 TIL that the n in 7-ELEVEn is lowercase because the President's wife thought that all caps looked too aggressive and harsh. She thought the change made the logo appear to be more graceful.