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TIL Oreos are the imitation knock-offs of Hydrox cookies that debuted four years earlier in 1908.
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TIL children who were victims of bullying are consistently found to be at higher risk of being diagnosed with anxiety and depression in adulthood. They never truly get over it.
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TIL the film ‘Back to the Future’ provides the OED’s earliest recorded example of a colloquial sense of ‘hello’, used to imply (sometimes disbelievingly or sarcastically) that the person addressed is not paying attention, has not understood something, or has said something nonsensical or foolish.
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TIL when Philip II of Macedon sent the Spartans a message saying "If I invade Laconia, I shall turn you out," the Spartans simply responded with "If."
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TIL It took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million people, 20 years for the phone, 13 years for the television, 3.6 years for Facebook and it took Google Plus 88 days