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TIL that the USA now recognizes a 5th ocean - Southern / Antarctic (in addition to the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic)

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Z8gpR TIL Velcro is the name brand of Hook and Loop Fastener. It was invented in the 40s by a Swiss engineer and patterned after cockleburrs, burdock seeds that would stick to his pants and in his dog's fur. He looked at them under a microscope and was inspired to recreate it.
j6wvn TIL that there's a steakhouse on the same block as the White House
x67Yw TIL that 16.3 million of the 16.4 million Americans who served in WW2 are dead
4ZWw TIL of the Mast Brothers who repackaged regular chocolate bars and sold them as artisanal chocolate for $10
v1vBK TIL The infinite monkey theorem was tried by putting a computer in a monkey cage. "Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it."