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TIL that Manipur is known as the Jewel of India.

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6EmNl TIL that "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" considered other names before settling on the one they did, among them "Arthur Megapode’s Cheap Show", "Owl Stretching Time", "Vaseline Parade" and "A Clump of Plinths"
AD8Wn TIL that a coin toss decided that Portland, OR should be named after its namesake in Maine. The other proposition was Boston.
MKR8 TIL Maria Sharapova has a candy company called Sugarpova. She was seriously considering changing her name to Sugarpova before the 2013 US Open.
d8MNr TIL That 1 gram of activated charcoal has approximately 1,000 square meters of surface area.
rRA8M TIL that the box office flop "Idiocracy" (2006) was released in as few theaters as possible by 20th Century Fox so as to not offend the negatively portrayed advertisers in the movie. Fox then planned, and succeeded, in recuperating its budget by purposefully making the movie garner a cult following