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TIL in 2010, after 90 years of publication, Canadian magazine "The Beaver" changed its name to "Canada's History" because the modern slang definition for "beaver" resulted in their promotional emails being sent to the spam folder.

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7rVjx TIL scientists developed a kind of "inverted sieve", which holds back smaller particles, while letting bigger particles through.
8w7a TIL The Japanese government pays compensations for Japanese A-bomb survivors but ignores to compensate for Korean slave workers who also survived the bomb
ADvNd TIL of Pierre-Simon Laplace, often referred to as the French Newton, he is credited with translating the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus. Laplace was one of the first scientists to propose the existence of black holes and the theory of gravitational collapse.
l7Ema TIL no Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi has won an Oscar despite 20 further nominations
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