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TIL of Zippy Chippy, a racehorse that, despite having many famous racehorses in his pedigree, failed to win all of the 100 races he competed in and ended up banned from all tracks except Northampton Fair.

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4X4r5 TIL In 1922, the Bureau of Public Roads commissioned Gen. John J. Pershing to make a map for construction purposes and to highlight which roads in the U.S. were the most important in the event of war. The "Pershing Map" was the first official topographic road map of the United States.
m1E4p TIL the band name NSYNC is a play on the last letter of each of the original band members names: JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC.
VmDZ TIL that when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he closed the company’s philanthropic programs, and never revived them even when the company became spectacularly successful. Apple didn’t even have a matching program for charitable giving under his leadership, something other large companies do.
N7YPP TIL the Russian city of Tolyatti (pop. 700000) is named after Italian Communist Party Secretary Palmiro Togliatti for his role in setting up a venture between Fiat and Soviet VAZ (Lada), whose plant still dominates the industry of the city to this day.
wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.