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TIL before Mazda was a car company they were car bulbs a trademark of GE

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oBWoW TIL that in 1997, dockers in Oakland, Vancouver, Yokohama and Kobe refused to work a scab ship from Liverpool in solidarity with 500 Liverpool dockers who were sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. There is no confirmation of what finally happened to those containers.
yQBnl TIL about Caño Cristales which is often called “the river of five colours” or the “liquid rainbow”, and according to local legend, it escaped paradise to flow through the Earth.
v1Kv4 Til: When the permanent tooth starts growing out of the gums, the new tooth breaks down the roots of the baby tooth, causing it to loosen and fall out. That is why there is no root on a fallen out baby tooth.
e0GPE TIL Popeye the sailor man was inspired by a Polish sailor named Frank 'Rocky' Fiegel
vPwK4 TIL that during a single Senate term from 1949 to 1955, Nebraska's Class 2 seat was occupied by six different senators due to two deaths, three appointments, two special elections, and one resignation.