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TIL Philadelphia leads the nation in sweatpants purchases per capita.

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wo8yW TIL because trademarks can become generic - which means companies can lose rights to the mark - Transformers no longer transform in packaging and some marketing. They are listed as converting instead.
R5BOa TIL that 100 years ago, on January 5, 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming made history as the first female governor in the United States.
M7Vb8 TIL that India had to ban charas (cannabis concentrate) due to pressure from the US.
9YdbD TIL after the police chief in a small New Mexico city stepped down, the only certified member of the police department was a drug sniffing dog named Nikka
b9E9Z TIL there's a species of ants that abducts larvae of other colonies to use them as slaves. Their own "workers" do nothing but these raids.