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TIL the phrase “Don’t mess with Texas” has nothing to do with Texan toughness, but was invented by the Texas Department of Transportation to fight littering

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YpRdB TIL High priced college textbooks bundled with "access codes" that expire at the end of the semester largely force students to buy books at retail prices at campus bookstores and render the texts worthless in the resale market. Nearly four in 10 college courses bundle their texts with access codes.
dNN7 TIL Nintendo of Japan was afraid that Americans would rest soda cans on top of their Super Nintendos, it was redesigned when released in America to avoid this.
DQ1nJ TIL Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" is a cover originally released in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy. The time between both recordings was 42 years, but it has been 51 years since the 1971 release of Zeppelin's version.
X05jQ TIL that brown rats were domesticated twice. First in Japan starting around 1654 and then a second time completely independently in Europe in the early 1800s.
8aLQK TIL that the band the Byrds was originally called the Jet Set and, in an attempt to cash in on the British Invasion craze, released a single under the British-sounding name the Beefeaters.