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TIL The Philippines got its name from king Philip II of Spain, while Indonesia is thought to be derived from Greek with indos meaning "India" and nesos meaning "islands."

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lDKG TIL that an attribution to Adolph Hitler’s irrational behavior was his daily usage of methamphetamine, barbiturates, amphetamines, opiates and cocaine.
1Lrr TIL The most eaten fruit of the world is not an Apple nor a Banana, in fact, the most eaten fruit in the world is the Mango. It outsells Apples by 10 to 1, and Bananas by 3 to 1.
rNAww TIL the brain-body mass ratio is thought to be a rough estimate of the intelligence of an animal, and that the bony-eared assfish has the smallest brain-body mass ratio of all vertebrates.
O1lL TIL Massachusetts Republicans are more liberal than Arkansas Democrats
XlQ6 TIL That there’s an organization of 200 plus millionaires that formed a political group that actively pushes for political equality regardless of wealth, higher wages for workers and tries to get the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.