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TIL there’s no standard definition of “nacho cheese.” It’s whatever you want it to be, and whatever companies think you’d be willing to call nacho cheese.

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KYyEa TIL that "rock 'n' roll" had been used since the early 1920s as a blues song lyric meaning sexual intercourse. The term was popularized by a record salesman and DJ to introduce racially charged "rythm & blues" to a white audience.
j6gPN TIL That the Kingdom of Armenia was the first state in history to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
epjdJ TIL while Lion King(1994) earned $2 billion in box office and home media, it earned $3 billion and $8 billion in merchandising and stage adatation respectively.
QNN1d TIL in 1868 Australia’s first touring cricket company consisted of 13 Aboriginal men from the Jardwadjali, Gunditjimara and Wotjobaluk nations in Australia. The men traveled to England to play 47 matches and were coached / captained by ex all-England cricketer Charles Lawrence
bMl0 TIL that When guitar player Steve Vai joined Frank Zappa’s band as a teenager he was so good even then, that Zappa would credit his guitar parts as “stunt guitar” or “impossible guitar parts” on the liner notes of his albums.