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TIL a 12-year-old girl discovered that all except one US president is descended from 13th century King John of England.

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R7Pw1 TIL that the largest fully-functional pipe organ in the world is in a Macy's in Philadelphia.
E1nm7 TIL getting goosebumps from music is a rare condition that actually implies different brain structure. People who experience goosebumps from music have more fibers connecting their auditory cortex and areas associated with emotional processing, meaning the two areas can communicate better.
R5aaQ TIL: Velcro is actually a brand name, and they launched campaigns to get people to stop saying "Velcro". The correct term is actually "hook and loop".
GYpXQ TIL an acronym is ONLY when you pronounce the abbreviation as a word (e.g. SWAT). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (e.g. FBI).
WyA9 TIL Ian Fleming named James Bond after an American bird expert and stated he chose the name because he wanted Bond to be “an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened…I thought by God, James Bond is the dullest name I ever heard.”