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TIL: Soap operas got their name because soap companies were the primary advertisers of radio dramas (target towards women).

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X01xE TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake."
AEZn TIL that there is open source cola, OpenCola, which allows you to edit and submit improvements for the recipe.
gMPJ8 TIL about the Moro people in the Philippines. These people have been at war for their independence for over four centuries, fighting the Spanish, the Americans, the Japanese and the current Philippines government.
gMO1b TIL Architects tried to raise $2.9 billion to build Minas Tirith, the city in "Lord of the Rings"
X0DMD TIL about Wallace "Wally" Bowers. Struggling to support four kids and a wife dying of cancer, he picked up additional weekend work for a logging company. He was killed during the eruption of Mount St. Helens of May 1980. His wife died three months later from her illness.