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TIL the French version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm changes the name of the pig Napoleon to Caesar. It is illegal to name a pig Napoleon in France.

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16MbO TIL in a Florida ceremony honoring James Earl Jones on MLK Day in 2002, the plaque honoring the actor bore the assassin's name — James Earl Ray — thanking him for "keeping the dream alive"
m1kby TIL we perceive being wet primarily from the coldness of the of water evaporating. For a liquid to turn into gas, energy is needed (ex motion or heat), so energy is expended in the process. In this case from the heat of our skin. A fridge/freezer uses the same principle).
rNev4 TIL that in 2023, Meta almost doubled Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security to $14,000,000 while cutting 11,000 jobs. Mark Zuckerberg called this the “year of efficiency”.
ANXla TIL of Grant Amato, an American murderer who was convicted of a familicide. He was jobless, but he stole his parents' and brother's credit cards to spend 200k on a Bulgarian camgirl, then killed them all when they cut him off.
ADGra TIL: fossilized vomit is thing and it's called regurgitalite