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TIL Zippo trademarked their lighter's famous "click"

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VMXPB TIL of the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act. While in active duty military, you can submit a request to your credit card lenders to lower your interest rate to a maximum of 6%, and they are required by law to comply. This applies to debt incurred before joining as well.
wod0P TIL some of St. Nicholas/Santa Claus’s bones were once gifted to a New York City church by Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. Both the church and the bones were destroyed on 9/11.
b9d84 TIL about 'the Tridge', a three legged wooden footbridge that spans the confluence of the Chippewa and Tittabawassee Rivers in Chippewassee Park in Midland, Michigan. The three legs span out to Chippewassee Park, St. Charles Park and the Farmer's Market areas.
W7NZN TIL that some people carry a gene called ABCC11: the “no body odor gene” which produces odorless armpit sweat and dry ear wax.
n8Z7 TIL Sandra Bullock is fluent in German