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TIL in 1999, the stock of Computer Literacy Inc. shot up 36% in one day, purely because the company changed its name to the more hip-sounding Fatbrain.com.

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p8ANN TIL about nine out of ten Lincoln Town Car buyers were over the age of 65.
vMBx TIL the clitoris remained “undiscovered” until 1559, when an Italian anatomy professor, Realdo Colombo, documented its existence in his book, De Re Anatomica.
4XON6 TIL that "Xmas" is not an attempt to remove "Christ" from "Christmas", but rather a shortening to the Greek letter chi, which is the first letter in the Greek spelling of Christ.
P14Ow TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape
NBvE TIL there is a naturally occurring black rose. They grow in only one place, a small village in Turkey called Halfeti. And they only appear black in the summer months.