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TIL that the kings in regular playing cards refer to specific historical kings.

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VBRDB TIL the term "care package" was originally invented by the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE), an NGO established in 1945, and the term is still a registered trademark of that organisation
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XE9vP TIL that in 1996 In 1996 Canada’s Northwest Territories began exploring a name change. But the process was hijacked by pranksters who elevated the suggestion of “Bob” to second place over a variety of local Indigenous names.
16A6d TIL that the largest known prime number discovered as of June 2023 is 282,589,933 − 1, a number which contains 24,862,048 digits.
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