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TIL The King Ranch trim for Ford trucks and SUVs is named after a famous Texas rancher, Richard King, and the wavy icon on these trucks is thought to represent either diamondback rattlesnakes, longhorn bull horns, or the Santa Gertrudis Creek

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KOnMG TIL in 1997 a division by zero on the USS Yorktown's database system brought down all the machines on the ship's network, causing the propulsion system to fail.
nebar TIL it wasn't illegal to buy or sell human organs until 1984 in the US.
Qmm6 TIL rubbing (or isopropyl) alcohol usually comes in three concentrations: 70%, 91%, and 99%. The 70% dissapates slower and should not be used to clean electronics.
OGZWX TIL: the “old Duke rate”; a legal loophole that allows electric consumers in South Carolina pay the same rate for electricity that they have been since 1966
loQyG TIL The phrase et cetera (“and so forth”), commonly written as etc., is also properly abbreviated "&c". — representing the combination et + c(etera).