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TIL Ivan is just the Slavic variant of the name “John”

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VPWB TIL Woody Guthrie, who wrote “This Land is Your Land”, painted the words “THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS” on his guitar
nWEyb TIL that on 9/11, an estimated 500,000 people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan on ferries, yachts and charter boats, making it the largest water evacuation in history.
5DkB TIL that nearly a third of the adult men living in the British territory of Pitcairn Island are convicted pedophiles. The U.K. foreign office does not allow its staff located on the island to be accompanied by their children, and all children under 16 require a special permit to enter.
j6xmp TIL that the name Yakult comes from the Esperanto word “jahurto”. This is as the founder believed Esperanto would become a common international language
a5M TIL that toshiba programmed a robot to “love”. It later had to be deactivated due to “stalking” an engineer.