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TIL that the word “Sanction” is an antonym of itself.
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TIL that tennis and basketball courts sometimes develop "dead spots" where the ball doesn't bounce
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TIL In 1973, during his stay in Vietnam, Henry Moak was issued a combat ration that included a can of pound cake, manufactured in 1969. He vowed to eat the pound cake when he retired from the Army. On July 24, 2009, Colonel Moak opened the forty-year-old can and kept his word
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TIL of the Noble Train of Artillery. During the Revolutionary War, Henry Knox managed to transport 60 tons of artillery 300 miles in three months during the dead of winter. "This stupendous feat of logistics" was widely credited as a catalyst which broke the British siege of Boston.
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TIL that the founders of Lululemon gave it its name because they thought it would sound Western to Japanese consumers, who have difficulty pronouncing the letter L. They thought it would be funny to watch Japanese people try to pronounce the name.
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TIL In 1608, English writer Thomas Coryat wrote a book detailing his five months’ travel through Europe in which he described, among other things, use of the table fork as an eating utensil. He also introduced “umbrella” into English after noticing Italians shielding themselves from the sun.