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TIL: the word "tycoon" is from the Japanese "taikun", meaning "great prince", and made the jump to English in the 1850s largely because it was used to describe Abraham Lincoln

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x0BB TIL when glass breaks, the cracks spread at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
Br1xk TIL James Earl Ray, MLK’s assassin, was accidentally honored in a Florida plaque supposed to be celebrating James Earl Jones during an MLK Day event. Officials received their plaque and were horrified to discover that it bore an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for “keeping the dream alive”.
DQedr TIL: It is illegal for a private company to deliver a letter without using a USPS stamp and it being ink cancelled, even if the USPS does not handle the letter.
OGGY1 TIL Benjamin Franklin wrote a poem about Edward Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard
G0KE TIL Tommy Lee Jones did not and possibly still doesn’t like Jim Carrey. They worked together on “Batman Forever.” When Carrey asked him why he didn’t like him, Jones replied, “I cannot sanction your buffoonery.”