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TIL: The Beaver magazine had to change name, because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers

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Aeen TIL There is a vault in the arctic that stores over 860k different varieties of food crop seeds as an insurance policy for the world’s food supply
kOPRe TIL CANOLA is an acronym for Canadian Oil Low Acid
xD1o TIL the word “Ewok” was never used throughout the entire filming of “Return of the Jedi”. It only appears in the credits.
DQwAY TIL that a teacher called Angela Ruiz-Robles invented the mechanical precursor to the e-book in 1949
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