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TIL that All Star by Smash Mouth turns 18 this year.

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9Yl17 TIL during WW2 when Ford produced the Merlin engine they claimed they couldn't following the sent plans. Rolls-Royce, designer of the Merlin, assumed Ford was incapable of meeting their high standards, only to learn that the tolerances were too loose and didn't meet the precision required for cars
WkbZN TIL that Jane Addams, founder the social work profession, was adamantly opposed to the entrance of the U.S. into WWI. She was admitted to a Baltimore hospital on December 10, 1931, the day that she was to receive the Nobel Peace in Oslo.
00j TIL that Hobbes (in Calvin & Hobbes) was not meant to be imaginary.
RKJ7 TIL The names for domestic food animals while they’re alive, come from the lower class Anglo-Saxons who tended them, and the word for their meat come from the upper class Norman French who could afford to eat them.
4ZAw TIL: 15 of the worlds largest shipping vessels create as much pollution as all the cars in the world combined.