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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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oROVY TIL: Canada has a higher percentage of truck ownership than the US
1ZKd TIL that an experiment called the “Monster Study” was conducted on 22 orphans in Iowa. In it, half of the kids consistently were teased for stuttering and developed speech problems even when they were normal before the experiment.
NK48 TIL that despite Alzheimer’s Disease killing nearly as many people every year as cancer (in the U.S.), it receives only a tenth of the funding from the government that cancer does.
W765d TIL that a lot of printers add nearly invisible yellow dots that can be used to track down where a printed file came from. MIC was originally created to prevent the use of laser printers to create counterfeit money.
d8y9d TIL that the Apollo astronauts couldn't get life insurance for their unique, dangerous jobs...so they signed hundreds of autographs, which their families would have been able to sell if they didn't make it home.