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TIL that the "Q" in Q-tips stands for "quality."

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vPQ07 TIL that Danish singer Rasmus Thude had one of his songs, originally titled “LLL (Love, Liquor, Lick It),” mistaken for a new Justin Timberlake track; both fans and media thought it was Timberlake’s work before the confusion was cleared up.
yQ7bX TIL the Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise
l7o55 TIL the term 'computer' used to mean humans who performed tedious, repetitive calculations by hand. Many of whom were women and some became the early programmers in a time when men refused to code because it was seen as "woman's work"
BrJve TIL Infamous pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach operated off the coast of the American colonies so frequently that he once crashed his ship off North Carolina, spent time on land in Virginia, and later blockaded the port of the then-province of South Carolina!
4kg76 TIL In 2022 "Seven" was the 754th most popular boys name.