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TIL Ron Popeil was a college drop out and his Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ sold over eight million units in the US alone

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oRjLY TIL the endonym for Bhutan is "Drukyul", meaning "the Land of the Thunder Dragon". Their head of state is "Druk Gyalpo", the Dragon King, and he wears "Uzha Jarogchen", the Raven Crown.
rR104 TIL Seattle was the site of a mass collective delusion in the 1950s, when thousands of people thought their cars were being pitted by cosmic rays or sand fleas.
PYZvZ TIL One of the first recorded applications for a closed circuit television system (CCTV) was back in 1942 in Nazi Germany, where it was used to monitor the launch of V2 rockets.
AwYd TIL the ASPCA euthanized a homeless man’s dog without telling him - he only found out when a reporter told him after the dog was killed.
8e5JP TIL that the Guinness Book of World Records winner for "Most In Demand Show" of 2024 was Game of Thrones.