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TIL Giant Technicolor Squirrels Actually Roam the Forests of Southern India

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7yMx TIL that Bluetooth is named after 10th Century king Harald Bluetooth who united Danish tribes into a single kingdom, and that the Bluetooth logo is made of the runes for his initials.
OGaeR TIL that the Heinz Co. (yes, the ketchup ppl) used to advertise pickles by literally wheeling a giant pickle jar around Pittsburgh in a horse-drawn carriage.
exg TIL in 1485 a mysterious disease broke out causing people to sweat to death in a matter of hours. The disease claimed the lives of tens of thousands before mysteriously vanishing.
WR8L TIL: in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
GYkJE TIL President Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court after his second pick, Douglas Ginsburg, was forced to withdraw his nomination after admitting to marijuana use in the 60's and 70's.