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TIL “public relations” is an anagram of “crap built on lies”
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TIL that a “jiffy” is an actual period of time, 33.3564 picoseconds. The amount of time it takes light to travel a centimeter.
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TIL grade schools in Japan don't have janitors, and the students clean the school
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TIL that Duct Tape was originally called Duck Tape. In WWII, Johnson & Johnson created a waterproof rubber adhesive tape applied to a durable duck cloth backing for use as waterproof sealing tape on ammunition cases: "Duck Tape". Later it was used to seal air ducts in forced-air heating HVAC systems
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TIL that dogs are more likely to steal food in the dark because they know that humans do not see as well when light is low.
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TIL The woman that started Mothers Day in the USA wished she had never started the Day because the commercialism behind it got so out of control