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TIL Queen Victoria wrote an average 2,500 words per day, and her personal journal grew to a total of 122 volumes.

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v87j TIL Nike made a commercial with a Samburu tribesman saying “Just Do it” in his native language. An American anthropologist called them out. He actually said “I don’t want these, give me big shoes.” Nike’s response: “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
7rMLL TIL Keurig K-Cups are non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and generate a ton of plastic waste. They are so environmentally unfriendly that its own inventor has said: “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
X0O58 TIL that The Doors were the first act to advertise music using billboards
BrL6K TIL that the Prime Minister of Samoa one of the longest serving leaders in the world (21 years and counting). His party has been in power since 1982.
YexB TIL four out of every five animals on Earth is a nematode