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TIL that Hik-Connect app available in Apple App store is from a Chinese company that's currently sanctioned by the US government

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yQl8e TIL Generation labels are made up by the marketing industry. Ad agencies wanted another catch-all term for the new members of their target age group. For example, Generation Y was too hard to brand, it didn’t have the spark of “Millennials”. These labels are not based from science.
mxLXE TIL that the plural of hovercraft is hovercraft
P11oE TIL that Roy Rogers' horse "Trigger" first appeared as Maid Marian's horse in the 1939 version of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland, The horse's original name was "Golden Cloud".
x6Q7 TIL Peanuts premiered on this day 62 years ago.
YW5P TIL that Hanukah is celebrated by eating fried foods (such as latkes (potato pancakes), jelly doughnuts sufganiyot and Sephardic Bimuelos) to commemorate the importance of oil.