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TIL the Package Saver is the name of the little plastic table that goes into the middle of pizza boxes.

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J1WGl TIL That a governor disappeared by going to Argentina for an extramarital affair. During his six day disappearance, one of the governors spokesperson claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" is now a euphemism for a sexual scandal.
4nE5 TIL that the soviets trained dogs to serve as anti-tank bombers, but because they used soviet tanks to train the dogs, the dogs attacked Russian tanks instead of their German targets.
WJmA TIL that the word “Orchid” is derived from the Greek word “Orkhis”, meaning “testicle”
vPBPx TIL when Conan O'Brien reached a settlement with NBC over the Tonight Show drama, he was awarded $45 million, $12 million of which was for his staff who had moved with Conan to Los Angeles from New York when he left Late Night.
6957W TIL: There is a system of units, Planck Units, for length, mass, time, and temperature based universal physical constants, such as the speed of light, rather than a choice of prototype object. It is mostly used in quantum mechanics.