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TIL: Music played in elevators and grocery stores has a specific official name.. "Muzak"

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465R TIL that it’s easier to have an orgasm while wearing socks.
xVpw1 TIL a European group is using back-breeding in attempts to re-introduce the aurochs, a forerunner of all modern cattle which has been extinct since 1627.
4kD4R TIL Hugo Junkers, the founder of Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works that manufactured many of Germany's WWII bombers, opposed German re-armament. The Nazis seized his patents and company, threatened him with treason, and placed him under house arrest.
kOO6m TIL the use of the word “scoop” in the context of news stories started with fisherman scooping water sealed boxes (full of news) out of the ocean and delivering them to land before wired transatlantic communications negated the need to do so.
e0jGb TIL: The “Panera Bread” name does not exist in St. Louis. There it is still called by its original name - the St. Louis Bread Co.