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TIL That morocco was the first country to recognize USA in 1777.

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4XeG6 TIL that “Idaho” was not a Native American word as originally thought but rather a made-up word. “To his horror, he found that he had been the victim of a practical joke. [He]learned, to his surprise, that the name did not mean, "gem of the mountains"...In fact, it did not mean anything at all.”
gre4 TIL The Inventor of the Pringles Can was Buried in One
QReX Today I learned that Zelda Fitzgerald (wife of F.Scott Fitzgerald) died in a more than horrific way, waiting for electroshock treatment in a sanatorium’s locked room when a kitchen fire in the building spread there and ended her life.
yVmnX TIL students invented a low-cost "invisibility coat" that hides the wearer from AI security cameras. It uses a camouflage pattern to trick visual recognition during the day and emits unusual heat signals to confuse infrared sensors at night.
npNo TIL Former U.S President Jimmy Carter helped to reduce the Guinea Worm Disease cases from 3.5 million to 126. This disease is now at the brink of extinction.