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TIL there is a camp for kids with Tourette Syndrome called Camp Twitch and Shout

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mmKY TIL No one knows where the word “dog” originally came from. Appearing without cognates in Old English, it displaced the more common “hound” within 400 years and went on to find its way into 7 other European languages.
E1Zgx TIL the Silk Road black market founder Ross Ulbricht was caught because he used his Silk Road username in a forum asking for software help
l7owr TIL that GPS(global positioning system) technology was originally restricted to military use. In 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet fighter aircraft after it had strayed into Soviet territory. US President Regan then authorized GPS use by civilians.
R7ve8 TIL: 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's prime; a palindromic prime number (a number which reads the same both backwards and forwards and is only divisible by itself and one). The name refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell.
nWa4G TIL that a money raising attempt by former Mexican President and General Santa Anna (responsible for losing the Texas Revolution) led to the invention of chewing gum in the United States.