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TIL Vietnamese pho has French origins from the stew Pot-Au-Feu.

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VMbwB TIL that a non-Indigenous company holds worldwide exclusive rights to use the Australian Aboriginal flag on clothing.
nWoo TIL Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual cramps.
AM5x TIL in 2004 Bungie started a viral marketing campaign called I Love Bees which had participants from all over the world answering pay phones found by decoding GPS coordinates and times from the website. Hundreds participated, and not a single phone call was missed.
0wgpR TIL that stuck inside on a rainy day in 1816, writers Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to a ghost writing contest. These stories later turned into Frankenstein (Shelley) and The Vampyre (Polidori), the latter of which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
ANYNB TIL There are people whose jobs include masturbating dogs for a living. They are called theriogenologists. 😳