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TIL that it took George Eastman, the inventor of Kodak film, four years to come up with a name for his product. His mother helped him, and had a few rules for what he wanted: something short, something impossible to mispronounce, something unique, and something that included his favorite letter, K.

EEax TIL last year more people planned to shop on Black Friday than voted in the presidential election
MeZ1m TIL there's an Upgrayedded post-credit scene in Idiocracy
65mJ TIL That the Susan G. Komen only donates 21% of all donations to breast cancer research.
rNMgo TIL papayas can naturally change sex while growing and scientists are working on methods to produce fruit-only plants
VMvEk TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.