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TIL the collective term for ferretts is a business.

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l665 TIL that Venezuela is the top winner in the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Earth, and was the second country after Brazil to win all four.
BgNBy TIL that the Oregon Compulsory Education Act was enacted in part because the faiths of Catholics and Jews were viewed as "incompatible with American values".
eby4 TIL during the 1970s Boeing was almost bankrupt and the company barely survived by building TRAMS for San Francisco and Boston. Today, they’re the largest aerospace company in the world.
8vRP TIL Hofstadter’s Law states: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
XErPP TIL that MRI is actually NMRI - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Nuclear is dropped because people would be less likely to trust the technology.