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TIL that there is a desk full of candy in the US Senate

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E1Bpo TIL the city of Novosibirsk was nicknamed "the Chicago of Siberia" due to its very rapid growth as an industrial centre located relatively far away from the core of its country's population.
KOAPE TIL that in 1955, the Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo company leader Akio Morita explained that the company name would be difficult to pronounce in foreign lands. Changing it to Sony Corporation would allow them to expand worldwide.
p8QQG TIL Starfish can drop off their arms when they feel threatened. Some species can even regenerate themselves from a single arm, as long as there's a small portion of the central disk, and some also reproduce that way, simply splitting in half to become two individual starfish.
N7l46 TIL the state of Alaska has over 3 million natural lakes.
xVOmb TIL, UHAUL's founder Leonard Shoen was born on Leap Day, February 29th, and the year he was born on, 1916 is a leap year!