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TIL Chevy Chase is the name of a town in Maryland, and the comedian Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius.

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nWVVP TIL about Unsinkable Sam, a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships. The Sinking of the Bismark, the Sinking of the HMS Cossack, and the sinking of the HMS Ark Royal.
JYaaB TIL Hawaii is the only U.S. state where the recorded temperature has never reached 100F (38C)
5Y0yR TIL Fredrick Wilson taught geometry in Princeton University in New Jersey back in 1890. Where he taught his students this symbol which we now (worldwide) know as the easily-drawn-dollar-signor graffiti S
mxdko TIL after civil rights leader Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in 1994, Little Caesers' founder Mike Ilich paid her rent every month until she died in 2005.
1bKW TIL Alfred Heineken proposed the creation of rectangular Heineken beer bottles, so that people in poor places could use the empty bottles as bricks to build structures. The company rejected the designs for a number of reasons, saying that the first prototype looked “too effeminate.”