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TIL Jason Lee, of My Name is Earl finally quit Scientology! (In 2016)

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kOEKe TIL in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt indirectly aided in Woodrow Wilson’s win when he formed the “Bull Moose Party” in retaliation to not winning the republican presidential nomination against Taft, splitting the republican vote.
Yp0Gd TIL that Ajax, the brand of cleaning products, got its name from the hero Ajax in Greek mythology, which is arguably “stronger than Greece”. The slogan of Ajax, the brand, is “Stronger than grease!”
ADL9w TIL Netherlands has more population density than India
Xxxj TIL that many tech companies stayed away from the use of male computerized voices because of HAL-9000 (from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’)
xkD0 TIL That when Kazakhstan’s shooting team won a medal at a competition in Kuwait during the medal ceremony they played the Borat version of the national anthem