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TIL Jaguar was originally called SS Cars and renamed itself in 1945 to avoid confusion with the Nazi organisation.

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YY6d TIL Over the objections of their supervisors and colleagues, Dr. Emil Freireich and Dr. Emil Frei tackled children’s Leukemia with combination chemotherapy with four different kind of drugs. Today, the cure rate for this form of cancer is more than 90 percent.
oBGkW TIL that there are languages with no words for left or right, forward and backward and only use compass points (NSEW) and because of this these people have an incredible sense of direction
OoL77 TIL rat-baiting was a common sport in 19th-century England. Occasionally desperate men would compete against dogs to see who could kill the most rats, some of the more successful becoming minor celebrities.
J571 TIL Author Joe Hill was so determined to keep it a secret that he was Stephen King’s son, his own agent didn’t know for 10 years.
pYBje TIL baseball's Texas Rangers would not swap an August game series at the Houston Astros for a September series at the Rangers. Most of Houston was flooded at the time. Instead, the series was played in Tampa, Florida. The Rangers' explanation was that swapping would inconvenience ticketholders.