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TIL German chocolate cake is named after a person, Sam German, not the country

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AlvB TIL Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin, passed on the project to another developer in 2010 and has since disappeared. No one knows who he is or where he went.
E14Wp TIL after the 1980 film Popeye flopped, the set was abandoned, so the locals of Mellieha, Malta reclaimed it as a Popeye theme park.
N7OEP TIL the sequence 123456 does not appear in the first million digits of PI
d8pNK TIL that ethinlyestradiol (EE2) can cause impaired sexual differentiation in male embryos. Said embryos are intersex, genetically male but physically female.
WkBrL TIL there is a scoring system for UNO. Once a player has no cards remaining, he receives all opponents’ cards and points are counted.