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TIL that the Apple Stocks app icon represents the point where Apple's share value passed Dell's

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1aeVW TIL that the poem to remember the days of the month "Thirty days has September", taught to children to this day, is actually at least a 600-year-old poem, with the earliest known published forms written in Old English and Latin, from 1425 and 1488, respectively.
mxnDo TIL about a Siberian Husky named Togo, he led his dog team on the 1925 Serum Run (bringing meds to stop a Diptheria epidemic), in -40°C weather. They set the record for longest distance and fastest team to do the run. However a dog named Balto received all the praise, including a statue.
8arMX TIL there’s a cryptocurrency named Dogecoin with the face of a Shiba Inu as it’s logo. It was made as joke in 2013 but is now worth over $350 million in market value.
bQ8j TIL those who survived the Pearl Harbor bombings and were crew members of the USS Arizona can still choose to be interred on the ship with their fallen crew mates.
wdY8 TIL that the term “easter egg” originates from the the 1975 movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” when the cast had an Easter Egg hunt but most of the eggs went unfound. They can be seen throughout the film in various locations.