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TIL that Hydrox is the original sandwich cookie, while Oreo is the more popular knockoff

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BrDYy TIL Palau became the first country in the world to ban sunscreen that is harmful to sea life and corals.
5YQwn TIL Ferret means "little thief" and a group of them is called a "business". Also, if excited, they perform a behavior called the "weasel war dance".
N8kP TIL in the 13th century, in order to discover which language humans would speak naturally, Frederick II, emperor of Germany, placed 50 newborns in the care of nurses who would only feed and bathe the babies but not speak or hold them. The emperor never got an answer because all of the infants died.
GAYJQ TIL King Gojong, on the 16th day of the 11th month of 1895 (32nd year of reign), issued an edict that all adult men cut their hair short: “In front of the people I cut my hair first, so it is my wish that the people follow my will ... "
b694 TIL that, as a way to reinvent himself upon enrolling at Northwestern University, Stephen Colbert began pronouncing his last name with a silent t.