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TIL: Americans call a knob of butter "a stick" of butter.

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knN5 TIL the Rolex watch company is run by not-for-profit charitable trusts. So after a certain amount of money goes to Rolex employees & the founding Rolex family, what remains is donated to charities. Some of these charities focus on watchmaking & some on HS education. Rolex founder was an orphan.
awEGM TIL the character of Wilson in Home Improvement (1991) was based on Time Allen's childhood memories of being too short to look over his fence to see his neighbors.
QJLBd TIL rescue dogs searching the ruins of 9/11 found too few survivors that it caused them depression because they felt they had failed. The rescue workers pretended and hide themselves in the rubble in order to give the dogs successful finds and keep them motivated.
9B4D TIL Freddie Mercury snuck Princess Diana into a gay bar in South London. The Princess was disguised as a man and went unnoticed the whole time.
e0d96 TIL USPS Trucks are 30 years old