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TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old

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R5RRa TIL Mall walk is an actual sport - Many malls open early so that people may mall walk
a4L0 TIL a woman once tried to sue Nickelodeon, claiming she couldn’t have sex because Marc Summers threw a pie at her face on Double Dare. The network gave her $25,000 to “go away.“
Y9DZ TIL NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher made news in 2012, when, during the landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Washington’s Dulles Airport, she was asked by an aspiring young astronaut how they could get into the space program, Fisher quipped “study Russian.”
RQw TIL that mints are not only given at the end of a meal in restaurants to help freshen your breath, but herbs like peppermint help settle nausea and upset stomach (i.e. from overeating).
Egk9P TIL that the Prussian language, which has been extinct since the 17th century, is slowly being revived, and for the first time, children are growing up with it as their first language.