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TIL the company that makes “Spam” meat refers to internet spamming as “unwanted emails” instead of spam.

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R7Okj TIL that college students scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test (NPI) have been trending steadily upward since the mid to late 80s indicating that people are becoming more narcissistic.
P11BE TIL that the Voyager 1 Space probe launched by NASA in 1977 has traveled over 14 billion miles away from earth as of 2022.
1argd TIL Saint Francis of Assisi believed that nature itself was the mirror of God. He called all creatures his "brothers" and "sisters", and even preached to the birds.
J1Mpm TIL that Ireland has a population of Wallabies, they were introduced in the 1950s but the population took off in the 1980s when Dublin Zoo had a surplus of the marsupials
4XNPb The world’s first ever known wheelie to be successfully attempted, c. 1936.