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TIL that the "Segway" vehicles are named after the word "segue"

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wdpM TIL that the fifteen year old Steven Spielberg, dressed up ‘in a coat and tie’, sneaked onto the Universal Studios Lot and stuck his name up on the door of an abandoned office. He remained there without being caught for over three months, spending the time observing how the professionals made films.
VB6G8 TIL in 2005, a parrot, Willie, became a hero when he saved a toddler’s life in Colorado. When the toddler began to choke, Willie screamed “Mama, baby!” Alerting the babysitter to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre, saving the toddler's life
Q4Op TIL that TASER is short for ‘Thomas A Swift’s Electric Rifle’
69gZX TIL - 1939 - The US had two thanksgivings because shop owners were afraid of losing 7 days of shopping - The Year We Had Two Thanksgivings
xVwnD TIL of HMS Diamond Rock, which was commissioned as a Royal Navy warship despite being an uninhabited minor Caribbean island between Martinique and St. Lucia. Other British warships had to salute it when passing it.