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TIL back in 2007 a Company Named Their MP3 Player the “I.Beat Blaxx”

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JYWWm TIL: Tennessee is divided into three “Grand Divisions”: East, Middle, and West. This division is enshrined in the state constitution in several ways, for example the five-member State Supreme Court cannot have more than two members from any one of the divisions.
nWe7P TIL in 1762, a Korean king confined his son ("Crown Prince Sado") in a rice chest in the heat of summer and starved him to death. It is said that the crown prince turned lunatic under his father's extremely high expectations, became bipolar, and sadistically murdered people
j6y9v TIL the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket was 161.3km/h or 100.2mph by Shoaib Akhtar against England during the Cricket World Cup, 2003
PYYLw TIL that woodpeckers have exceptionally long tongues that wrap around their brains.
kOPyW TIL that the 1985 movie ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ was the first feature film to have a completely CGI character: the knight emerging from the stained glass window. The effect was created by Pixar’s John Lasseter, who was working at Lucasfilm at the time.