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TIL that Twitter’s logo (a little blue bird) is named “Larry”, in honor of Larry Bird

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KOkDa TIL Boulevards of the Marshals: a collection of thoroughfares that encircle the city of Paris, each named after a marshal in Napoleon army.
PdOn TIL the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (1990) was a low-budget non-studio flick that blew away box office records and became the highest-grossing indie film of all time (at the time).
0wd8L TIL that "hello" is a relatively new word, first used in 1826 and not becoming common until the 1860s
d8v6Z TIL that a short time before Lincoln's assassination John Wilks Booths older brother Edwin Booth saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's eldest son Robert Lincoln.
xLo1 TIL in 1981 a man with cerebral palsy appeared on a UK kids’ TV show to demonstrate how much a disabled person can achieve. Instead it sparked a nationwide trend of schoolchildren mocking his speech and calling each other “spastic” as an insult.