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TIL that Apple used Rickrolls developers in their beta testing

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Y7edd TIL Lawrence Joseph Bader, an Ohio man who vanished in 1957 after a boating trip on Lake Erie. Eight years later, he was found in Omaha, Nebraska, living as John "Fritz" Johnson, a radio and TV personality with no memory of his past life.
1ZZX TIL there is an outdoor topless co-ed book club in New York to help the de-sexualization of female breasts
rNnw0 TIL that the bird we call “turkey” in English is named "Hindi" in Turkey and "Peru" in portuguese.
4XmyN TIL Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest state capital in the US & its full name remains La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís which means "The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi" in English.
R7mWa TIL That the phrase "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" originates because in medieval ages, people shared scarce bathwater and by the time the baby was bathed, the water was so murky that the baby was in danger of being thrown out unseen