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TIL the famous Neighborhood Watch sign has a name. Boris the Burglar was trademarked in 1972 by the (NSA) National Sheriffs’ Association

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R5v57 TIL about 55 Water Street, an office building in Lower Manhattan with 3.2 million sq ft. of office space owned by Retirement Systems of Alabama the pension fund for Government employees in Alabama.
6E158 TIL of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a man who had a stroke at 43 years old and after a 20-day coma, awoke to find that he was almost fully paralyzed; he could only use his left eyelid. He wrote a memoir, by blinking when the correct letter was said by a person reciting the alphabet over and over again.
KOGK4 TIL In Japan women give chocolate to men rather than the common-place tradition of men gifting women with tokens of love. This is rumored to be a tradition which originated from a translation error of a chocolate company during the initial campaigns marketing Valentines Day
JDVk TIL that the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight in 1903 “did not create public excitement—if people even knew about them—and the news soon faded”. In fact, they were largely mocked and disregarded until a demonstration in France nearly 5 years later.
Y7Kpd TIL that over 700 large ships were lost between 2014 and 2023. This is a major decrease from the 1990s where over 200 vessels were lost per year.