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TIL the official spelling of the country Turkey was changed to Türkiye for the UN and the US

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awegL TIL In 1940 40 Wall street was worth less than its elevators had cost. The structure as a whole was worth $1.25 million, less than the 43 elevators in the building.40 Wall Street had opened following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and so suffered from lack of tenants.
nWOo TIL that Ole Miss operates the United States’ only legal marijuana farm, on behalf of the government.
oBd1o TIL that The Rock from WWE and Dwayne Johnson from Fast & Furious are actually the same person. The Rock is just his glamour name.
wBNE TIL that the “we ain’t found shit!” trooper from Spaceballs is Tim Russ, who also played Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager
O8Va TIL when the French king Jean II was prisoner of the English, he was allowed to return to France to raise money for his ransom, leaving his son as a replacement hostage. When his son escaped, he voluntarily returned to England, citing reasons of “good faith and honor”.