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TIL fashion designer Ralph Lauren’s original name is Ralph Lifshitz. He changed his name because, in his own words, “it has the word ‘shit’ in it”.

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Bx4d TIL of Dave Shaw. A deep-water diver who,while trying to break the world record for diving,found the body of another diver who had been missing for 10 years.
QGYX TIL that the font Comic Sans was created for the speech bubble of Bob The Dog for Windows 95. Bill Gates originally wanted it to be in Times Roman but font engineer Vincent Connare said “we can do better than that" and created Comic Sans
eeOg TIL People with surnames beginning with a letter near the start of the alphabet are more likely to win a Nobel Prize, due to being listed first in scientific papers.
8jPK TIL that according to a flat earth theory our forests are not “real”, thousands of years ago, 99% of the Earth’s biosphere were destroyed, and the real forests were taken away. Real trees were hundreds of kilometres tall, magical organisms that sustained a total living ecology of the flat earth.
gMroA TIL that the cork tree is a member of the oak family that can live for 200 years, and whose bark can be harvested up to 12 times.