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TIL that the name Yakult comes from the Esperanto word “jahurto”. This is as the founder believed Esperanto would become a common international language

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dlJZ TIL the black-footed cat, Africa’s smallest feline predator, has been known to kill sheep by hanging on to their throats until they have bitten through the jugular. Their maximum size is roughly 5 lbs.
Egx4V TIL that the soap opera As the World Turns has the longest total running time of any TV show, with 13,763 hours of total narrative. If you binged it for 8 hours a day, it would take you 4 years and 8 months to finish it all.
6VGQ TIL that on February 25, 2003, MSNBC cancelled their highest rated show at the time, ‘Donahue’, because Phil Donahue was a vocal opponent of the impending Iraq invasion. His show had higher ratings than Chris Matthews 'Hardball’, but Matthews was a big proponent of the Iraq invasion.
78Y4L TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn's campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.
Z89gR TIL HSBC knowingly laundered so many billions of dollars for the Mexican drug cartel that special deposit cash boxes were developed for them to fit the exact size of the teller windows. No executive saw a jail cell.