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TIL Sardines are named after the italian island of Sardinia
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TIL, In 2010 General Electric brought in $14,000,000,000 in profit world wide, with over $5,000,000,000 in profit brought from the United States alone, and paid no taxes.
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TIL in the 1980s millions used the Walkman during exercise helping to mark the beginning of the aerobics craze. During the height of the Walkman's popularity, between 1987-1997, the number of people who reported that they walked for exercise rose by 30%.
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TIL that older termites are used as suicide bombers.
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TIL that the first African American Governor of a US State, Douglas Wilder, wasn’t elected until 1990.
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TIL that “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth”, a study co-authored by hundreds of physicists, is only one sentence long: “So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.”