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TIL The ‘O’ in Irish surnames means means 'grandson of’.

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rRWEx TIL that the director of The Little Mermaid ,Ron Clements received a letter from a New Jersey State Trooper saying that, after seeing the movie and being driven to tears by it, he called his estranged daughter to reconcile their own relationship, just as Ariel and Triton did.
VMlb0 TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's tiniest city park. It's a circle 2 feet (0.61 m) across in the median of a street in Portland, Oregon. It was intended as the site for a light pole, but when no light pole appeared, someone planted flowers instead. It was named an official city park in 1976.
4QA6 TIL that the coloration of the windows of one of MIT’s dorms, Simmons Hall, correlates with the amount of structural stress at each segment of the wall.
oBew8 TIL that when George Washington died in 1799, the British Royal Navy was ordered to lower their flags to half mast. The London Morning Chronicle opined that ‘The whole range of history does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration’.
0d6Kv TIL of Roald Amundsen. The first person to reach the North and South poles.