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TIL that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's production company is named Seven Bucks because that is the amount of money he had to his name when he was cut from the Canadian Football League

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9YKNQ TIL: Sir George Everest did not want Mount Everest named after him. He objected that his surname could not be written in the Hindi language and that it was difficult for the locals to pronounce.
X0pGR TIL that’s Kangaroo testicles were stuffed with grass and used as a football by indigenous Australians and the game bore quite the resemblance to Aussie Rules Football.
oBraL TIL about the huge environmental impact of cut bunches of flowers due to the fact that most are grown in South America using pesticides banned in the West, trucked to and from airports, and flown around the world representing an enormous carbon footprint.
pY8AA TIL that Neuticles are implantable fake dog testicles invented by Gregg Miller, a man who believed that neutered male dogs really miss their balls a lot. The first commercially implanted Neuticles went into a dog in 1995 with over half a million pairs sold since at an average cost of $310 per pair.
PY0Xe TIL During the Korean War, after failing to weaken the Chinese forces through attrition, the United States carried out the most concentrated bombing campaign in history which killed over 20% of North Korea's population and thoroughly wiped out "every city, down, village" in the country.