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TIL: The State name "Idaho" was a made up word by a politician in 1861. He lied and tried to pass it off as a Native American word.

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Omo4 TIL Namibia is also the only country to include protection of the natural world in its governmental constitution
b6MW4 TIL of Captain Citrus, a fictional mascot based on Captain America from the Florida Department of Citrus, a state body tasked with promoting Florida's orange industry. Created in 2011 as "Ollie the Orange", Florida paid Marvel around $1 million in 2014 to redesign and publicly promote the character.
VMgl4 TIL more and more people are booking cruises on cargo ships. Passengers like it because they are less crowded, there are less distractions, and you can go on routes traditional cruise ships don't frequent
x68yD TIL in the 2000s, Laura Albert passed herself as JT LeRoy, a former juvenile prostitute heroin-user with AIDS, writing books as him and hiring her boyfriend's step-sister to impersonate him
p698 TIL California’s economy is the size of the bottom 24 states combined. It would rank 8th in the world if it were it’s own country - ahead of Italy, Russia, India, and 186 others.