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TIL the most popular last name in the world is “Wang”

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R5oJa TIL Alexander Graham Bell believed people should say “Ahoy” when they pick up the phone. Edison proposed “hello,” putting that word into common usage.
PYwbw TIL after the band Alice Cooper bombed a show in the first ten minutes, a manager approached them and arranged an audition with Frank Zappa at his house at 7 o'clock. They misinterpreted this as 7 in the morning and woke him up, who was impressed nevertheless and signed them for a three album deal.
evp4 TIL The Diary of Anne Frank was actually most successful in Japan. The Japanese identified with her “as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.”
ee4b TIL 37% of Italians have never used the internet (as of 2012)
LR0r TIL Steve Jobs’s pancreatic cancer was curable, and that his decision to use homeopathy while resisting surgery brought him to an early grave. According to the chief of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center’s integrative medicine department, he “…essentially committed suicide.”