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TIL “TASER” is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle”.

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x68m7 TIL:Japan's population has decreased by more than 4 million people from its peak (2010:128.06million > 2024: 123.99 million)
oB7JY TIL Bird poop is white because birds, unlike mammals, don’t produce urine. Instead they excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of uric acid, which emerges as a white paste.
Z8YRY TIL about John “Chickie” Donohue, a merchant marine, who completed the “Greatest Beer Run Ever” in 1968 when he snuck into Vietnam at the height of the war to find his three closest friends and buy them a beer.
Dn8g TIL the FBI planted a fake terrorist in a mosque in California - the mosque called the FBI on the “terrorist” and got a restraining order against him
xlp7 TIL that the band “Eagles” sued a nonprofit eagle preservation organization for the use of the word “Eagles”.