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TIL that the cleaning product "SOS" stands for save our saucepans

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9YKd7 TIL King County, WA, changed the "King" it was named after from William Rufus DeVane King, a slaveowner, to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1986.
7OyM TIL More than 10% of Japan’s GDP comes from its anime industry
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1a45X TIL when Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assasinated in 1973, the bomb was so powerful that it sent his car flying over the roof of a building and into the courtyard.