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TIL NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor, the city of Elgin, North Dakota, and the town of Elgin, South Carolina, were all named after the Elgin National Watch Company, which itself was named for its factory location in Elgin, Illinois

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Wx4X TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.
yDnM TIL A man who’s filed over 10,000 lawsuits sued Guinness World Records for naming him The World’s Most Litigious Man
VMxW0 TIL about the Demon of Champawat. A female tiger in Nepal that killed over 400 people before being hunted and killed in 1907. She traveled as much as 20 miles a day in search of new victims and to evade pursuers.
gblD TIL that airline workers are classified as radiation workers (like people in nuclear power plants), because of how much exposure they get due to cosmic radiation making it through the thinner atmosphere while flying.
PdDZ TIL a father confessed to murdering his 3 year old daughter under a coercive police interrogation. His neighbor was later convicted from DNA evidence.