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TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2

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b66y0 TIL: The purple blob McDonald's mascot Grimace is supposed to be an enormous taste bud.
BM9k TIL that by tradition, a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hangs over the mantel of the Roosevelt Room during the administration of a president from the Democratic Party and a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt is hung up and during the administration of a Republican president
XEY6r TIL that El Salvador is the only country in the world named after Jesus Christ
D1ynv TIL, The Blue Whale, largest animal on Earth which can grow to over 30 meters long, evolved from a land animal named Pakicetus that lived around 50 million years ago. Pakicetus was a four-footed mammal about the size of a wolf and it lived around what is now Pakistan.
vPyK TIL the word “decide” has the same partial etymology (-cide) as homicide, regicide, pesticide. Basically, it means to determine by killing off choices.