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TIL Target owns the license for Targét, the pseudo-French pronunciation of Target

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4xgo TIL New Zealand has an official Wizard appointed by the prime minister.
6EZ0l TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
D1YDe TIL that honey bees are the first insect known to grasp the concept of zero. Study shows that honey bees can learn and apply the concepts of greater than and less than to interpret a blank stimulus as representing the conceptual number of zero and place zero in relation to other numerical values.
nWrQo TIL the term “420” originated from a high school in San Rafael, CA
4gpa TIL The German word Backpfeifengesicht - a face that cries out for a fist in it.