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TIL the video game company SEGA gets it’s name from SErvice GAmes of Japan, a company that they bought.

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OGDpa TIL of Joan Deebank, British Columbia's oldest high school graduate at 92 years old. In 1939, her parents forced her to drop out. She became a maid, served in the British Army, emigrated to Canada, and had four children before re-enrolling in an adult program
8aOnZ TIL Arborglyph is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Derived from arbor ‘tree’; glyphein ‘to carve’. It was also mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the love-frenzied Orlando declares he will carve every tree in the Forest of Arden.
QR1k TIL that the main difference between a brand drug and its generic equivalent is the cost of the product. A generic drug must contain the same active ingredients and must be equivalent in strength and dosage to the original brand-name product.
D1yXe Til there is a banana variety that is blue in color and has the taste and texture of vanilla icecream
EOrV TIL the NFL earns revenues of $9 billion and doesn’t pay taxes. This is because in 1966, the phrase which allowed “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade” as non-profits was changed to include “or profession football leagues”.