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TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud's birth name was Sigismund Schlomo Freud

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kJpjg TIL the most popular surname in the world is Wang
m1XbR TIL that Tootsie Rolls have been made with the same recipe since its invention in 1896, which requires the previous day's candy batch to be incorporated into each new batch. Theoretically, this means that there's a bit of the first Tootsie Roll in each piece of newly produced Tootsie Rolls everyday.
WmQ8 TIL When Nelson Mandela met Spice Girls in 1997 he described the moment as “One of the greatest moments of my life”.
x67bk TIL That a "census-designated place" called "Rough and Ready" (named after Zachary Taylor) in Nevada County, California declared secession from the United States in 1850 (During the California Gold Rush) to avoid mining taxes. It voted to rejoin the union 3 months later on July 4th.
N7NbP TIL that residential dishwashers have a filter that needs to be cleaned. I don’t know how this escaped me until now...especially considering that I’ve cleaned many a commercial dishwasher filter.