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TIL that License to Kill (a James Bond film) was originally titled License Revoked; the name was changed as too many people didn’t know the definition of ‘revoked’.

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6K5W TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. Fourmonths and 3,000 installs later someone finally claimed that prize.
8agOX TIL about the types of map projections. There is this map projection called AuthaGraph and it is the most accurate 2D map projection in existence (which can also be magically folded into a 3D globe!)
KYDXB TIL There is a hockey version of the Harlem Globetrotters called the Flying Fathers.
xV87g TIL The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher and/or lower in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz. It can be heard in guitar solos on the song Purple Haze
m1E0O TIL: The Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice, Italy is a bookstore that has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats, including a full size gondola, it also has a fire escape that exits directly into a canal.