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TIL Crescent Wrench is a brand that was genericized to a category of wrenches

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9Y8oD TIL about US presidential pet hamsters Debbie and Billie. Billie, who ate his own children, who was then eaten by Debbie, who then died of indigestion.
94a6 TIL when advertisers began to drop Lance Armstrong due to his doping allegations, he reportedly lost 75 million dollars in a single day.
gMBQ4 TIL Sovereign immunity means that as head of the state Queen Elizabeth 'cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution'. As well as this, the Queen also benefits from diplomatic immunity.
oLoE TIL: Pocahontas and Shakespeare were alive at the same time and died only a year apart.
loevN TIL 5,600 Americans died during the building of the Panama Canal, and 22,000 French workers died before the Americans took the job over.