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TIL Jason Schwartzman and Nic Cage are first cousins (and Francis Ford Coppola is uncle to both)

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oRZNR TIL: Agent Orange was produced by Uniroyal Canada in Elmira, Ont., a small farming community just outside Waterloo.
Q6Xp TIL Washington state was originally to be called Columbia but some thought it may be confused with the District of Columbia so it was rejected.
0wwnL Hard to know, says Will Harcourt- Smith, an expert on early-human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
KO07R TIL that before the invention of Garden Gnomes, wealthy British landowners would hire people to live in their gardens as "Ornamental Hermits".
1a5Yr TIL in war it is illegal under the Geneva Convention to pretend to be injured in order to trick the enemy