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TIL Secretariat has 263 US streets named after him - far more than any other athlete, human or otherwise.

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PYljZ TIL Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.”
b6nnZ TIL when Marie Curie fell into a depression, Einstein wrote her a letter telling her he felt lucky to have met her, and, referring to the newspaper articles constantly attacking her, he advised her “to simply not read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”
X0eZ8 TIL that the trope of vampires dying in the sun was only created in 1922 during the ending of Nosferatu
W9P9 TIL that if their characters had aged in a normal timeline based on their first appearance, Tommy Pickles would be 24 years old, Stewie Griffin would be 15, Cartman would be 27, Bart Simpson 33, and Charlie Brown 67.
v1LnB TIL less Americans died in combat during the American Revolutionary War (~6800) than died from disease (~17000)