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TIL that Kobe Bryant was named after the Japanese dish Kobe beef when his parents spotted it on a menu.

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BeYe TIL a 10 year girl saved hundreds of people during the Thailand Boxing day Tsunami of 2004 after learning about the warning signs of Tsunami 2 weeks prior.
R7x9Q TIL Bill Haley ("Rock Around the Clock") sported a 'kiss curl' above his right eye because as a child he was blinded in his left eye, and wanted to draw the audience's attention away from it.
e0v8b TIL about comparative mythology. Anthropologist reconstruct ancient religions based on trends in their cultural descendents. Zeus and Jupiter (and many others) likely evolved from the Indo-European "*Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr" ("sky father")
wQVM TIL in 1998, Sony launched 700,000 camcorders which unknowingly had the ability to see through people’s clothes. They were immediately recalled.
O56e TIL it is the tradition in Sri Lanka for children to throw their baby teeth onto the roof of their house in the presence of a squirrel.