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TIL that macOS and iOS are both based on FreeBSD.

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7rKvO TIL that household company names like DuPont, American Express, and Brooks Brothers each played an active part in the American Civil War.
YoVZ TIL that a Texas school district is so small that one person “has been the superintendent, the principal, the third-to-sixth-grade teacher, the ESL instructor, the special-ed teacher, the repairman, the contractor”. Divine, Texas (about 20 students)’s school bus is a used white limousine.
jN4gX TIL At the end of WW2, ownership of the German Battlecruiser 'Prinz Eugen' was decided by putting Russian, British and American names in a hat and drawing a raffle.
oBVQK TIL that giraffes sleep using their own butts as pillows
aoBb TIL a pollination technique invented by a 12 year old slave is the reason Vanilla is commonly available today