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TIL that Helium is the only element that is not a metal with the -ium suffix and it’s because Helium was named before -ium was used to indicate metals.

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4kVDX TIL the Republic of West Florida existed from September 1810 to December 1810, for 74 days. It had a constitution and a Governor and a flag, the first lone star flag in US history.
ndaG TIL Edmund McIlhenny, inventor of Tabasco sauce, did not consider his sauce to be a major accomplishment and made no mention of it in his autobiography toward the end of his life, nor was it mentioned in his obituary.
R7eY8 TIL the term “the big apple” originally referred to horse racing. The city got its most famous nickname from a local newspaper’s horse racing column in the 1920s. Prior to the city’s adoption of the nickname, the phrase “Big Apple” was used to describe a big money prize at important horse races.
njLP TIL that after the CDC published a report in the mid ‘90s that showed a gun kept for protection was more likely to kill the owner or a loved one than an intruder, the NRA lobbied for and got legislation that made it illegal for the CDC to study the health impact of guns.
ElMp TIL the band Panic! at the Disco started out as a Blink-182 cover band