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TIL Intel was originally going to be called Moore Noyce after two of its co-founders, but the name was rejected because it sounded too similar to "more noise"

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aOMy TIL researchers polled 250 children regarding their opinions on clowns; all 250 children in the study reported that they found clowns frightening.
Bmpy TIL that NBC’s To Catch a Predator conducted a sting operation that resulted in the suicide of a pedophile who was having sexually explicit chats with a decoy posing as a minor.
Y7km7 TIL surgical genital mutilation is performed on 80.5% of male babies in the United States. The rate is about 99% in a number of Muslim countries.
N7p8N TIL Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, and Rée all fell in love with the same woman, Lou Salomé. Intellectual and prolific, she was the first female psychoanalyst and lived free of society’s prescription for women. She was the ultimate feminist/ubermensch, yet is completely forgotten by history.
8ayPL TIL that there is a procedure called "fecal transplantation". The doctor transplants feces from a healthy donor into another person to restore the balance of bacteria in their gut.