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TIL that East India company still exist today—it is now owned by Sanjiv Mehta, a businessman from India.

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v1DnL TIL that David Werder sat on a flagpole for over a year to protest gas prices in 1982-1984
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4XXaa TIL that J.R.R Tolkien got the name for Samwise Gamgee from a doctor called Joseph Sampson Gamgee, the inventor of the 'Gamgee tissue', an absorbent gauze surgical dressing made from cotton wool. Hence, Tolkien named Samwise's wife in The Lord of the Rings books Rosie Cotton.
dxw8 TIL Prince’s birth name was… Prince
gr6DA TIL, that in the US, President Lincoln made the first federal observance of Thanksgiving on August 6, 1863. The holiday was changed to the last Thursday in November a few months later.