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TIL the name "Fannie Mae" comes from the abbreviation for Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA)

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R7j7w TIL that while bronze is usually made from copper and tin, it can be made with copper and arsenic instead
4XEPa TIL Ben Sliney, FAA operations manager who ordered 4,000 planes to be grounded immediately after the 9/11 attacks, was on his first day on the job.
oBwRA TIL, the name Aceh(an Indonesian province) is actually an acronym for Arabic-Chinese-European-Hindu. [Source: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies]
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen
lgYA TIL because Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. they loaded their ship with coffee and sold it along the way