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TIL Google has been buying 1 company a week, since 2010.
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TIL The first chocolate bar was made in 1847. Before that, chocolate was exclusively a drink
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Today I Learned that the # symbol isn’t officially called the hashtag or the pound sign. It’s technical name is octothorpe. The “octo” means “eight” referring to how many points it has.
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TIL the US minted a quarter For 2020 with bats on it. First time bats have appeared on a US coin.
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TIL of Eugene Bostwick, a retired Texas farmer who kept taking in dogs that people abandoned at the dead-end street near his horse barn; he would feed the dogs & take them to the vet to get spayed & neutered. He built a "dog train" in order to take all his dogs out at the same time with his tractor.
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TIL: Burger King is called “Hungry Jack’s” in Australia, as the name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide