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TIL Froot Loops are actually all the same flavor, just different colors.

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VMd9Z TIL the English horn is not english at all. Its name comes from a mistranslation "cor angle", which means "angled horn" in French, heard instead as "cor anglais."
EWao TIL there’s a compression algorithm that shrinks text to half the size of what popular compressors can achieve, but it takes 1000x more time and 30x more RAM. It shrinks Wikipedia to 1/8 its size, takes 3 days per Gb.
xJjB TIL a student was arrested for stripping down to his underwear in Richmond International Airport revealing the Fourth Amendment written on his chest. Charges against him have been dropped and law enforcement officers are now required to take a two-hour class on the First and Fourth amendments.
6YKm TIL that the Hubble Space Telescope is fully open for public use, regardless of nationality or academic background
XE6aX TIL Studio Ghibli caps their merchandise income at 10 billion yen, in fear that any more commercialization would make their characters 'die instantly'