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TIL Kinkos got its name from its Lebanese founder's nickname, because he had "kinky hair"

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6VpZ TIL 2Pac’s double-platinum posthumous album “Loyal to the Game” was composed and produced entirely by Eminem, with 100% of royalties going to Tupac Shakur’s mother.
xG6g TIL Mao promised that Chinese steel production would surpass England and overtake America. As a result, many Chinese children born in 1958 and 1959 were named “Chaoying” (“Surpass England”) and “Chaomei” (“Overtake America”).
P18ME TIL Don Cheadle's father was a US congressman for nearly 25 years
p8rYb TIL the US Air Force drops every christmas since 1952 10s of thousands of pounds of supply, food, toys and commodities on the islands of Micronesia. It is the longest running mission of the United States Department of Defense and the longest running humanitarian airlift in the world.
kOAMm TIL that Pixar started as a computer division of Lucasfilm in 1979. Then, George Lucas sold the company to Steve Jobs and renamed it to "Pixar" in 1986. Now, both Lucasfilm and Pixar are the sister companies and a part of The Walt Disney Company.