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TIL that the city of Tulsa is basically a contraction of the word “Tallahassee”, the Creek word for “Old Town”.

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VB05D TIL that, according to Jerome, the Hebrew name of God (יהוה) was sometimes mistaken for the Greek letters πιπι (pipi).
LQlZm TIL about the city of Palmanova in Italy, that is a 9-pointed star-shaped fortress town that took 200 years to build from 1593 under the Venetian Republic to 1813 under the Napoleonic domination and it's included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list
9xyX TIL LEGO offers a free Digital Designer that you design your project and can order just those pieces.
woEyW TIL The Four Minute Men were American volunteers who gave propaganda speeches during the First World War. The speeches were four minutes long because they often spoke in movie theaters where it took four minutes to change film reels. Speakers also often modified the speech for the local audience.
kO0mB TIL that, according to Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno, CBS thought the name Bruce Banner sounded "too gay-ish.” The protagonist’s name on The Incredible Hulk series was then changed to David Banner. Ferrigno thought it was "the most absurd, ridiculous thing [I’d] ever heard".