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TIL the term "Corinthian leather" is meaningless, and was invented to sell Chrysler luxury cars (more info in comments)

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oRByL TIL that the Battle of the Bulge marked the first time the U.S. Army desegregated troops during WWII.
nepRo TIL: Dexter Holland of The Offspring wrote their hit "Gone Away" after his girlfriend was killed in a car accident
x9R5 TIL in 1991 a fake Russian tv program on Leningrad tv convinced many citizens that Lenin consumed a lot of psychedelic mushrooms, eventually even becoming a mushroom himself. The Leningrad communist party had to declare that"Lenin could not have been a mushroom" because “a mammal can not be a plant”
e0Onn TIL Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO had the worlds largest ruby carved in to a turd on an ice cream cone.
VM8R0 TIL that Iceland sits atop the North-Atlantic ridge, splitting the island across both the North American and Eurasian plates.