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TIL that “sardine” isn’t actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae.

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Y78VA TIL that the first historical mosque in the world (built by Muhammad himself) was torn down and replaced by the Saudi government in 1984.
1xa4 TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast
5YV58 TIL that both OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong sat on Corporate Audit Boards
E1r4V TIL Tupac's album All Eyez On Me was called Euthanasia at first. The reason for the album's name change was, as Tupac said in December of 1995, "That’s how I feel it is. I got the police watching me, the Feds. I got the females that want to charge me with false charges and sue me and all that."
QJlpE TIL that the desk in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, named after the ship it was built out of in 1880. The HMS Resolute was found empty and adrift in packice, then salvaged by the US and gifted back to the UK, which helped narrowly avoid a war. FDR would add the front to hide his polio.