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TIL "Pall Mall" cigarettes are named after Pall Mall street in London, which is named for the game Pall Mall played on that street, which is named after the French game of "Jeu de mail", which is named after the Italian game of "pallamaglio", which means "ball mallet".

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6EdvX TIL about asteroid J002E3, which was discovered 16 years ago orbiting the earth. It turned out to be the 3rd stage of Apollo 12, which had come back to earth orbit after going around the sun for over 30 years.
GA1YN TIL about Louis Abolafia, man who ran against Richard Nixon in 1968 elections as the naked hippie "love candidate" under the Cosmic Love party with the slogan "What have I got to hide?" for his performance art. He also was president candidate under the Nudist Party, and was friends with Bob Dylan.
6ERL8 TIL that The Sateré-Mawé tribe of Brazil have a ritual where they subject themselves to the sting of over 120 bullet ants, which have a sting 30 times more painful than that of a wasp.
BrGBW TIL due to BBC's policy against product placement they couldn't play the original version of "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'", and instead had DJs shout "Radio Times!", the title of BBC's own magazine, over the song's original chorus words "Rolling Stone".
Brdxr TIL that depictions of knights fighting snails were common in medieval texts. And no one really knows why.