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TIL Gwyneth Paltrow named her company Goop because some branding expert told her that all successful internet companies have double o's in their name, so she just put two o’s between her initials.

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7rj9Z TIL that a Nature photographer, Kjell Bloch Sandved, curated a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings that resembled all 26 letters in the English alphabet, as well as the 10 single-digit numbers.
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