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TIL: The word gasoline has nothing to do with gas, it was a brand knock off of the original Cazeline when a shop owner drew a line on the C to make it a G

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v4r TIL that in 2010 only 33 people have been murdered in Norway. On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik went on a rampage and killed 77 people in one day.
lodmr TIL of the Stockbridge Militia, a Native American military unit from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which was the first group of Native Americans to fight for the cause of American independence during the Revolutionary War.
Xg8 TIL Yellowstone was the world’s first national park, and sometimes called “America’s best idea.”
b0XQ TIL that Lucille Ball claimed she picked up radio signals on her dental work and reported it to authorities resulting in the bust of a Japanese spy signal in LA in 1942.
PNlg TIL Emily the cow escaped from a slaughterhouse minutes before her turn at the abattoir, wandered for 40 days eluding capture, went on to live for 8 more years before getting a memorial on her grave