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TIL that Oprah's real name is "Orpah"

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Rd07 TIL that the name for the coffee company “Starbucks” comes from Captain Ahab’s first mate in the classic novel Moby Dick, who was named Starbuck.
awye0 TIL the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan was so powerful - measuring almost 9.0 on the Richter scale - it moved Japan 8 feet closer to North America and shifted the planet on its axis, causing the length of a day to shorten by almost 1.8 microseconds
kJbVe TIL about Chinese concession of Incheon (1884-1895), one of Chinese port concessions in Korea established after Qing China suppressed a Korean uprising.
yQBa8 TIL Buckminster Fuller was a renaissance man -- expert in architecture, design, engineering, science, cartography and education. Self-described 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist ' generating ideas and artifacts that cross boundaries and defy normality
vPd84 TIL in 2006 two woman were charged with criminal mischief for heating a fake penis called a “Whizzinator” in a convenience store microwave in order to pass a drug test. The clerk thought it was a real penis and called police. Charges were dropped after they agreed to replace the microwave.