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TIL in 1996, surveyor Mike Tate got a side street in NC renamed for the band Anthrax. After the 2001 Anthrax attacks, town residents were suddenly uncomfortable with the name and petitioned to have it changed.

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XEJLR TIL of twenty-seven year old Navy Veteran Telemachus Orfanos, a survivor of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that was killed a year later at the 2018 Thousand Oakes shooting in California.
5Ye8B TIL that a Ugandan mother gave birth to a girl on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston, but the newborn was considered and processed as a Canadian citizen by customs as she happened to be born in Canadian airspace.
R7AKj TIL One of the earliest quotations of the saying "Fortune favors the brave" came from Pliny the Elder, who said it before setting sail towards the erupting Mount Vesuvius, where he was killed instantly
8aD6a TIL that string beans got their name because they used to have a fibrous string running from tip to tip that had to be "unzipped" before eating -- until the string was bred out by a botanist.
VW8 TIL the US ranks #1 in private gun ownership. Private citizens own almost 90 times more guns than the US military.