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TIL Yogi Berra and his Yankees teammates advertised Yoo-Hoo in the 1960s by saying "It's Me-He for Yoo-Hoo!"

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W5eY TIL Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river.
kpEE TIL in 2008 there was a gamma ray burst, a violent cosmic explosion, 7.5 billion lightyears away, which is halfway across the visible universe, which could have been seen with a naked eye from the surface of the Earth. Anyone who saw it was looking billions of years into the past with their eyes.
a88JN TIL human egg fertilization isn’t determined by the fastest sperm but rather the egg sending chemicals to attract particular sperm it chooses
N7d0J TIL that the physician who tended to President Garfield after he was shot was Doctor Willard Bliss. His first name was Doctor.
LQmYQ TIL Amazon use to make a smartphone called Fire Phone. But it was discontinued due to poor functionality, pricing and exclusive to purchase only through a AT&T carrier contract.