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TIL the official name for Greece is the ‘Hellenic Republic’

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8exGZ TIL an Afghan immigrant invented and sold the process for Minute Rice to General Mills.
epka6 TIL Iona Morris was replaced as Storm in X-Men:The Animated Series because she would have been owed residuals otherwise
b9m0j TIL dogs were first domesticated in southern China, and that all modern dog breeds are the descendants of ancient Chinese wolves.
EgYep TIL the Japanese government launched Sake Viva, a contest to encourage young people to drink more and so boost tax revenues.
dDQnE TIL that the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words.