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TIL the state name “Idaho” doesn’t mean anything. Some guy just made it up for shits and giggles in the 1860s.

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wj8 TIL in 2008 a Texas schoolgirl was thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to cheer “put it in” for a football player who raped her.