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TIL — Erin Hunter (Warriorcats) is the name of eight authors who all work on the books

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woVO7 TIL: The brand Fruit Of the Loom is older than the light bulb, automobile and the telephone.
x6E40 TIL that 5 out of the last 5 mass extinctions were caused by large increases or decreases of atmospheric C02 levels
b9dB4 TIL a priceless 'Anglo-Saxon' casket was found being used as a sewing box by a local family
KNDB TIL Häagen-Dazs is actually jibberish that was meant to sound Danish and the company even sued a competitor for daring to use foreign sounding jibberish as their brand name too
0w78v TIL that from 1950 until 1966, NBA teams could specifically draft a player if they attended a college withkn 50 miles of the team's arena; players like Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson were drafted this way