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TIL that Chevron created Saudi Aramco.

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a8pgL TIL the name for “fear of cats” is “ailurophobia” and “felinophobia.” Why? Because “airluros” was what Greeks called Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess.
Xrwj TIL that they say “hundreds-and-thousands” instead of “sprinkles” in the U.K.
4X8E5 TIL Wilt Chamberlain was able to dunk a basketball from the free-throw line without a running start. Because of this, he routinely dunked his free throws and the NCAA and NBA eventually decided to institute rules to prevent this.
VBJkG TIL there was a girl who locked alone in a room for most of her first thirteen years, who never successfully learned a language. She is now 56 years old.
781Ob TIL that in 2013, police divers in Custer County Oklahoma, found 6 bodies in two vehicles at the bottom of Foss lake. Three bodies in each car were identified as people who went missing in 1969 and 1970. Both cars were found to have gone off the road and into the lake. Ending a 45 year mystery.