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TIL Honduras in 2000 tried to ban parents from giving children names like Motor or Bujia (Spark Plug).

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b6ob4 TIL about James Shields, an American Politician who has the distinction of being the only person in U.S. history to serve as a Senator for three different states; he represented Illinois from 1849 to 1855, Minnesota from 1858 to 1859, and Missouri in 1879.
dDaGK TIL fax machines were first used in the 1800s
WkNAL TIL that the lost property office at Dublin airport has an unclaimed tombstone with the words: ‘You will always be remembered, never forgotten.’
RAD6 TIL that Leo Fender, the founder of Fender and the person who developed the first solid-body electric guitar and electric bass guitar, never learned to play either instrument.
abEL TIL that the FBI learned two of its informants were planning to murder a rival gangster. The FBI didn’t intervene, and the man was murdered. The FBI then stayed silent when four innocent men were convicted of the crime. By the time the truth was revealed, two of the four men had died in prison.