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TIL Google owns several domains which are common misspellings of “google.com”, such as “gooogle.com”, “gogle.com”, “googlr.com”, and more. They also own the domain “466453.com”, which, when dialed on a phone, is equivalent to the spelling of “google.com”.

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P1ldJ TIL Michael Jackson was not the youngest Jackson brother. In 1975, younger brother Randy replaced Jermaine Jackson in the Jackson 5 when the group left Motown. Jermaine chose to stay at Motown, having married the daughter of founder Berry Gordy.
rN9Ey TIL that the name of the sportswear company ASICS is an acronym for the Latin expression "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano" ("You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body"), a quote from the Roman satirist Juvenal.
Rw16 TIL In 1844, in a case of mass hysteria, a convent of nuns began “meowing” together everyday for several hours. Eventually the neighbours complained and soldiers threatened to whip the nuns until they stopped meowing.
BrVLr TIL of the term "paraprosdokian" - a figure of speech in which the latter part of a phrase is surprising in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example would be Mitch Hedberg's famous one-liner "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."
gbjW TIL Andrew jackson’s opponents called him a jackass, so he adopted the name and used it as his own campaign symbol. It eventually became the symbol for the entire democratic party.