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TIL: UNTIL 2013, THE US NAVY SENT MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS
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TIL the term Indian Giver stems from a cultural misunderstanding. Pilgrams thought they were getting gifts. Indians thought they were bartering.
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TIL that Sylvester Stallone, with $106 in his bank account, refused an offer of $360,000 for a script he had written in his career’s infancy, in favor of making it himself. That script was Rocky.
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TIL that only one girls’ name in America has never gone out of the top 100 most popular: Elizabeth. According to the SSA, the name ranked a high of #3 in 1887, a low of #26 in 1945, and was #13 in 2018.
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TIL there are two Denis the Menaces - US & UK. Both were created independently of each other and launched on the same day. Both creators agree they didn't plagiarize from each other, and both are still published today.
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TIL that Meyer Goldstein, one of two Socialists to serve in the U.S. Congress, lost his seat to Samuel Dickstein, who was later discovered to be spying for the Soviet Union