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TIL that, due to ADA requirements, elevator chimes must sound once when it's going up, or twice if it's going down. This is to assist those who are unable to see.

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b9E5N TIL: Berries are simple fruits stemming from one flower. This means that pineapples, bananas, watermelon, pumpkins, and avocados are berries.
PxOE TIL that some people use live pigs to practice tattooing on. After the pigs die, one man sells their tattooed skin.
59r8 TIL that the name “Pakistan” was devised in 1933 as the acronym for: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sindh, and BalochiSTAN. Also, in Farsi and Urdu, “Pak” means “clean” and “-stan” means country
4kKLo TIL that one of the oldest recorded desserts in history is fruitcake, which dates back to ancient Egypt around 3000 BC.
LNK0 TIL -“Genericide” Is the term for calling similar products by the same brand name, such as all tissue paper “kleenex”,or calling a photocopiers a “Xerox”. Most popular: all pain killers “aspirin”.