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TIL about Ralph Lauren, the billionaire fashion mogul. His last name was Lifshitz but he changed it to Lauren when he was 16 because it had the word 'shit' in it and other children used to make fun of him.

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Z89kv TIL the near-extinction of the American bison was a deliberate plan by the US Army to starve Native Americans into submission. One colonel told a hunter who felt guilty shooting 30 bulls in one trip, "Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”
lo1lK TIL: about Tim Ballard, who left his job as a special agent for Homeland security and created an organization focusing solely on child Trafficking. To this day, he has saved 1000s' of victims and has arrested over 750 Traffuckers. and oh Yea, he also writes books
D1BaD TIL Ireland's air force only has 8 turboprop engine combat planes armed with rockets and machine guns.
RmE8 TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
168DP TIL that ELO, the rating system used in chess and esports is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American Physics Professor