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TIL The Lululemon retail chain’s name came from the founder’s desire to watch Japanese people try to pronounce it

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rRAd TIL that Madidi National Park in Bolivia may be most biologically diverse place on earth
xVvMD TIL The First successful Kidney Transplant took place in 1954 when Ronald Herrick, 23, had agreed to donate one of his kidneys to his identical twin brother, Richard, who was dying of kidney failure
KO5AE TIL All speakers can work as microphones and vice-versa; if you plug your headphones into a mic input, you can speak into them and use them as a microphone. The inverse is true as well.
yQD9p TIL that the Harley Davidson V-Rod was developed in collaboration with Porsche and was their first motorcycle that used water cooling and overhead cams.
6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy