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TIL Velcro was named for the words “velvet” & “crochet” and was invented by a Swiss engineer

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W7eEL TIL the London Jamme Masjid, a mosque in London's East End, was formerly a synagogue that was itself formerly a church in the past- consecrated as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue in 1891 and a Methodist chapel in 1819, showcasing the succession of urban migrants in the area.
yQMlJ TIL that Nintendo originated in 1889 and they originally produced playing cards
epELJ TIL learned that Belize was a British colony
9vZM TIL: An orangutan named Sibu at a zoo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands rejected all attempts made for him to mate with female orangutans. He only exhibited sexual interest in his human female caretakers with a particular penchant for the blonde ones with tattoos.
rnjM TIL of the Skoptsy sect, whose members underwent removal of sexual organs due to their belief that they represented the forbidden fruit and original sin