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TIL that Apple stopped making IPods in 2022

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P11pE TIL that a story exists in the mythology of the Chinook peoples where an anthropomorphic coyote is insulted, and later taught to catch salmon, by a talking pile of his own feces
Zp8Yp TIL That Douglas Hamilton and Antonio Burr, Alexander Hamilton's 5th grandson and descendant of Aaron Burr's cousin respectively, reenacted the famous duel on its 200th anniversary.
6gdW TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, resisted an effort by network executives to put a Christian chaplain on the crew of the Enterprise
W7eb4 TIL that US Olympic swimmer Iris Cummings is not only the last surviving athlete of the 1936 games, she was a WASP pilot in World War II and flew fighter planes.
oBwRA TIL, the name Aceh(an Indonesian province) is actually an acronym for Arabic-Chinese-European-Hindu. [Source: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies]