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TIL “Idaho” is a made-up word, suggested by a delegate as a practical joke.

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VdGB TIL in 1968 the Beatles formed Apple Corps Ltd (informally known as Apple). In 1981 a suit was settled with Apple Computer with the payment of $80,000 to Apple Corps. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stay out of the music business.
EA8w TIL: 87 years ago, there was a day that the BBC had no news to report. So they just played piano music.
VMQbG TIL that Houston Street in New York is pronounced "HOW-stən" because it was named after William Houstoun (Statesman from Georgia). The City of Houston, Texas (pronounced "HYOO-stən") was named for Sam Houston - the only person to be elected governor of two different states (Texas and Tennessee).
vPVK8 TIL that after a farm accident the dying farmer scratched his last will and testament onto a tractor fender, the tractor he was pinned under, and that fender was removed and submitted to the courts and ultimately found to be a valid will.
XEmn6 TIL in 1862 the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln many elephants on the grounds that a "Country as great as the United States should not be without elephants.” Lincoln politely declined.