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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”.

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AR87 TIL The United States is the most armed nation with 88.8 guns per 100 people.
8beL TIL that 93% of occupational fatalities in the US are men, a death rate roughly 11 times higher than that of women
p8aoZ TIL that it is estimated that the world's 25 million tons of spiders kill 400–800 million tons of prey per year.
noJY TIL 70% of lotto winners run through their money within 5 years, and it doesn’t matter whether they won $1 million or $100 million
ya1l TIL the word idiot was coined by the ancient Greeks to describe, contemptuously, those people who, even though eligible, did not participate in politics.