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TIL Nectarines are just mutant peaches

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epk6k TIL that when Canada's Waterloo Lutheran University needed a new name in 1973, it renamed itself after Wilfrid Laurier. While the country's seventh prime minister had no connection with the school, the newly named Wilfrid Laurier University did not have to change its initials, WLU.
dDEXr TIL that the BGP, the protocol responsible for routing information across the internet is known as the three-napkin protocol because it was originally sketched out on the back of "three ketchup-stained napkins"
PY88L TIL deer can be very destructive to your garden and because they hate the smell of human hair, you can use it as a deterrent (deerterrent).
R5on9 TIL that James Wan and his production company Atomic Monster were sued by Adam Cosco, who claimed that the film "MALIGNANT" was plagiarized and shared nearly 50 similarities with his own spec script.
QNg8E TIL George Washington's statue in London has soil from Virginia under it because Washington said in 1799 "I shall never step on English soil again"