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TIL Häagen-Dazs is actually jibberish that was meant to sound Danish and the company even sued a competitor for daring to use foreign sounding jibberish as their brand name too

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Ra5Q TIL Jim Morrison predicted the coming of hip-hop and electronic style music
XKgj TIL of the brain-eating amoeba, which lives in fresh water and kills unsuspecting swimmers every year by entering their bodies through the nose and consuming their brain tissue.
OGE5X Today I learned that between 1912 and 1946, ART was an actual olympic sport
AN7rg TIL Sassafras the main ingredient to Sarsaparilla and Gumbo File', the roots and bark of the sassafras tree contain a high concentration of the chemical safrole. Safrole was judged a carcinogen by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after testing it on rats in 1960.
lo6Za TIL longtime Nintendo president and owner Heroshi Yamauchi also owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team for over 20 years but never went to a game.