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TIL that Twitter's bird logo is named Larry after Larry Bird.

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4XVJN TIL Billy Graham bailed Martin Luther King out of jail in the 1960s when King was arrested in demonstrations.
e0Peg TIL "Father Time"; the Roman god, Saturn; the Greek god, Cronos; and the Grim Reaper are different versions of the same mythic character.
69Ejl TIL the Big Mac was created to compete with the Big Boy. Its two prior names before its current name was created by a 21-year-old advertising secretary, Esther Glickstein Rose. First was the Aristocrat, dropped as it was hard to pronounce, then the Blue Ribbon Burger. McDonald's settled on Big Mac.
5G8k TIL Starbucks spends more on health insurance for its employees than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee.
loVA7 TIL Humans domesticated dogs before they developed written language