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TIL Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme".

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Oolve TIL "pH" stands for "potential of hydrogen" - the more hydrogen ions in a liquid, the more alkaline it is
W4pd TIL that the Concorde used more fuel taxiing to the end of the runway than a Boeing 737 needs to fly all the way from London to Amsterdam
10NX TIL that a trained crow named Jimmy the Raven appeared in over 1,000 feature films between 1934 and 1954.
VBRY4 TIL Les Paul, who the iconic Gibson Les Paul guitar was named after, was also a pioneer of multi-track recording and the echo and phaser effects, making him one of the most influential people in modern music history
5BE9 TIL Oklahoma passed California last year as the most seismically active state in the continental U.S.