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TIL That Jellyfish Can Shut Down Nuclear Reactors
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TIL that words that change meaning and sometimes pronunciation based on the capitalization of the first letter, like "Polish" vs. "polish" are called Capitonyms.
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TIL there is an island in Shrewsbury, MA named after rapper Busta Rhymes.
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TIL that John Tyler, the 10th U.S. President still has a living grandson, Harrison Tyler who is 94 yrs old.
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TIL a huge part of Florida used to be called Mosquito county until 1844. The whole east coast of central Florida had previously been known as Los Musquitos since the 1500s.
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TIL the sad lamp from IKEA’s acclaimed 2002 commercial was taken home by a crew member at the end of the shoot. When the ad agency asked for it back, they received a note saying “See? you’ve fallen for it. You’ve grown attached to the lamp, and you are crazy.”