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TIL a town in Texas renamed itself to Dish in 2005 for 10 years of free television service from the company Dish network.

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N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
W7yON TIL Pelagic birds can drink seawater: glands beneath their eyes draw out excess sodium and secrete a highly concentrated salt solution through the nose
MpDb TIL that more Police Officers have died due to 9/11 related illnesses as a result of their work at ground zero than in the attack itself. The numbers continue to grow.
7vkr TIL that ‘Stu the IT guy’ from the movie “What We Do In The Shadows” is actually an IT guy named Stu.
dBBZ TIL of Australian news anchor Karl Stefanovic, who wore the same suit on air every day for a year, to see if people would notice, and nobody did