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TIL that the English word oil comes from the ancient Greek word elaia, which means olive. So olive oil basically means olive olive.

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XE8XR TIL NBA player George Hill owns an 850-acre ranch in Texas filled with kangaroos, zebras, ostriches, wildebeests, elk, antelope, Arabian oryx, red lechwes, New Zealand red stags, kudus, and other exotic animals
4kOJo TIL In November 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed by the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe in the Andaman Island chain in India, during an illegal expedition to the island, where Chau had intended to convert the tribe to Christianity.
5VMEQ TIL about sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent developed in the late 60's and which revolutionized protein analysis, as it unfolds proteins and gives them the same shape and electric charge density. This later led to the development of a technique called SDS-PAGE, which separates proteins by mass.
J7DQ TIL that “Weight Watchers is owned by the Heinz corporation. Slim-Fast is owned by Unilever […]. And Nestlé owns Jenny Craig.”
b6BNE TIL spiders will often eat their own webs in order to recoup some of the energy used in spinning them.