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TIL the word “dumpster” started out as a brand name, like kleenex, velcro, etc.

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Me1KA TIL that to be an alumni that you don't need to actually graduate but instead just have attended the school.
QJnva TIL France maintains the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, largely from many tiny overseas territories. It covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, while the land area of the French Republic is only 0.45% of the total land area of the Earth.
BgxXy TIL that dogs can also have ADHD
X05QE TIL that Galileo wasn’t vindicated by the Church until 1992
BrKyb TIL of Joy Milne who claimed that she smelled a distinct odor in patients with Parkinson's disease like her husband. She sniffed 6 shirts from people with Parkinson’s and 6 from healthy controls and identified 7 had it. 8 months later the "healthy" patient she "misidentified" was diagnosed as well.