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TIL Bank of America was originally called Bank of Italy

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rRDoM TIL that typing "&zwnj" into youtube search bar yields videos with no titles. It's an acronym for "zero-width non-joiner".
X0G7k TIL that Quincy Jones was eligible for membership in the Sons of Confederacy Veterans.
DmOY TIL Disney has a 3 nautical mile (~3.5m) no fly zone around it; sharing a long list of military bases
kOKD1 TIL Magpies in Australia are not related in anyway to Magpies in the rest of the world.
RJBw TIL that Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, developed a new malaria drug by finding a fever-fighting traditional herb mentioned in a 1,600-year-old text and then isolating the antimalarial compound in the plant.