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TIL Dwayne Johnson’s Longtime Stunt Double is also his Real-Life Cousin, Tanoai Reed

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rBOx TIL that Groupon is trying to take the name GNOME, a registered trademark, from the Open Source Linux Desktop environment of the same name that’s been around for almost two decades for a proprietary app.
epWM5 TIL that wasps have to 'perish' in a fig and it turns into a soup before becoming fruit
6EWr8 TIL Plato wrote of the Ring of Gyges: A shepherd found a golden ring in a tomb in a cave, pocketed it, realized it could make him invisible, used it to seduce the queen, commit regicide, and become the new king.
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rGaW TIL that “Chop Suey” literally means “miscellaneous leftovers” in Chinese.