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TIL that the Vietnamese word for the country of Italy is simply the letter "Ý".

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6960m TIL that Mona Simpson from the Simpsons was named after one of the writer's wife, who is also a writer. She learned as an adult she had a lost brother, and that brother was Steve Jobs.
4kgwa TIL Alan Menken, the composer who relaunched Disney's fortunes with hit songs, once dreamt of being a singer-songwriter in the Bob Dylan mode and hated that his soundtracks were associated with cartoons for children. His works with Disney later made him win more Oscars than any living person.
gMpGX TIL A 2015 study found no evidence that Kalash people of Pakistan are descent from soldiers of of Alexander the Great. The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000-year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture.
JYwZQ TIL Chilly Bang! Bang! was a kids' juice in a water pistol. Kids would put the barrel in their mouths and pull the trigger to drink it. It was pulled from store shelves.
xWVB TIL that An avenue is traditionally a straight road which emphasize arrival at a landscape or architectural feature and A boulevard is usually a widened, multi-lane arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side.