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TIL the color orange is named after the fruit of the same name. Not the other way around.

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166ND TIL there was an exponential increase in childhood cancer in Mexico due to the purchase of tons of milk from Ireland, which were contaminated due to the radioactivity caused by the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
QPKM TIL William Shatner once sold his kidney stone for $25,000 and donated the money to Hurricane Katrina Victims
KYvJE TIL Why the Trees on Your Street Smell Like Semen
dDRPE TIL about Russell King, a convicted fraudster who claimed to be the wealth manager for the Bahraini royal family. He used this entirely fabricated connection to steal a soccer club, half an investment bank, and the mining rights to all the gold in North Korea
E8Lw TIL that the Netherlands voted “Swaffelen” as their word of the year in 2008. It means to repeatedly smack one’s penis against someone or something.