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TIL the California Highway Patrol are not known as CHiPs.

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1r14 TIL That When A Director Directs A Pilot TV Show, They Earn Royalties For Every Episode Aired There After Even If They Have No Further Involvement With The Show
loGKN TIL Tunak Tunak Tun was only made because critics said Daler Mehndi's songs were only popular due to dancing women in the videos. Tunak became his most popular song ever and the video was just him in front of a bad CGI greenscreen.
R7Aw TIL the English name for the color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, and the color was originally, “Geoluard”
JYk1V TIL That from 1906-1920, there was a movement in the US to remove all silent letters and irregular spellings from the English language (eg: although->altho), funded by Andrew Carnegie and supported by Teddy Roosevelt
Va6k TIL Christophen Langan (IQ 190-210) was regularly beaten as a child for being smarter than his stepfather (IQ unknown). At age 12 he began weight training and at 14 threw his stepfather out of the house. Langan worked mostly labor-intensive jobs and for over 20 years, as a bouncer on Long Island.