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BRQb TIL that Listerine was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic.
Y7yNG TIL that Oghul Qaimish was regent of the Mongol Empire between Guyuk Khan's death in 1248 and the accession of Möngke Khan in 1251. Her personal name, of Turkic origin, meant "[We] Were Searching for a Boy", reflecting her parents' presumed frustration at their lack of a male child.
PYOlJ TIL When President Jimmy Carter told a joke during a speech in a college in Japan it was greeted with uproarious laughter. When he asked why the joke had gotten such a response, the Japanese interpreter replied: “I told the audience, ‘President Carter told a funny story; everyone must laugh.’ ”
pxmN TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
M7KXa TIL about The Nature Consevancy NGO which owns and protects 119 million acres (almost the size of spain) of land with valuable biodiversity