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TIL that squirrels too can get fat.

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LpDd TIL that in 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
Y7kxZ TIL Steve Jobs wanted the original iPhone to not have a SIM card slot according to Former iPod VP. Stating that he didn't want to have another hole in it.
R5KAQ TIL the Regina Pats are a Canadian junior hockey team founded in 1917. They are named after Princess Patricia of Connaught, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Originally called the Regina Patricia’s, the name was shortened to Pats in 1923.
GKMj TIL: Utah has been giving free homes to homeless people since 2005 which since then made it more cost efficient to help the homeless and cut the chronic homelessness in Utah by 74%.
b9bOj TIL that due to a rare condition, a simple Hickey can turn into a deadly stroke, a 17-year-old die getting a hickey from his girlfriend.