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TIL Canon Cameras got its name from an all seeing Japanese goddess of mercy named Kannon.

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4kbEa TIL: Exxon is a descendant of the great Standard Oil Co., the business that John D. Rockefeller started. The family’s wealth today largely stems from the 19th-century oil tycoon.
nWpMY TIL the Dating Show Killer Rodney Alcala and the Torso Killer Richard Cottingham both worked in the same office at the same time at Blue Cross although they both claim to have not known each other.
XLY6 TIL That people with multiple personality disorder can have different allergies with different personalities.
16p4X TIL Dennis Ritchie, who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of every software system we use on a daily basis, died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
47vb TIL that the influential American poet Walt Whitman’s collection of poetry,“Leaves of Grass”, was so controversial when first published in 1855 for its reference to open sexuality & homosexuality, that a major literary weekly publication recommended in its review that Whitman kill himself.