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TIL “Chicago” means “skunk land”

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78Qrr TiL: Emerson Romero Was Pioneer Of Closed Captioning!!!
jNa6a TIL there are children in Kosovo named "Tonibler", named after Tony Blair for his support of the 1999 NATO bombing in Yugoslavia.
R5aN4 TIL Actor Kevin Bacon pays off DJ’s when he attends weddings so that they won’t play “Footloose.”