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TIL while most of Noah Webster’s ‘Americanized’ spellings (such as 'center’ and 'color’) caught on, some did not, such as his changing of 'tongue’ to 'tung’.

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mx7nY TIL that in the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams
l70O1 TIL The United States is one of the world's largest gold producers, with mines located in states such as Nevada, Alaska, Colorado, and South Dakota.
BPXD TIL that 23 out of the 45 restaurants Gordon Ramsay owns has closed
oBND8 TIL President Gerald Ford started modeling for extra money after he graduated from Yale. In 1942, he was on the cover of Cosmo.
Kp9R TIL the famous “McDonald’s hot coffee case” wasn’t a frivolous lawsuit. It was filed by an elderly lady who suffered third degree burns and was hospitalized for a week due to the coffee being served at almost boiling temperature.