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TIL that over half of the names of companies on the Fortune 500 list have disappeared since the year 2000.

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78g6X TIL that in 2006, the movie Blazing Saddles was found to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. It has since been preserved in the National Film Registry.
1av5r TIL about Cliff Young, a 61 year-old farmer who won a 544 mile ultramarathon in 1983, which he ran wearing overalls and workboots, by not sleeping for 5 days. He let the other 5 finishers split the A$10,000 prize.
oRvNW TIL Cyril Radcliffe was given only five weeks to draw the borders between the newly independent India and Pakistan. Additionally the English Radcliffe had never been further east than Paris when he was chosen for the job. 14 million people had to move as a result of Radcliffe's borders.
wop61 TIL LSD was originally meant to be an analeptic, used in overdoses to stimulate the CNS, but the researcher accidentally absorbed some and got super high, leading to its discovery as a psychedelic
pY8nZ TIL: The Beaver magazine had to change name, because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers