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TIL Coca-Cola owns 61 variants of the domain ahh.com, from two h’s all the way to 62 h’s.

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j0RX TIL that Ypsilanti, Michigan is home to the ‘Brick Dick’, a water tower officially recognized as 'the most phallic building in the world.’
9wPp7 TIL the Inuit town of Quaqtaq in far northern Quebec is named for tapeworms, after an old legend in which a native hunter expelled live parasites. The town has a post office, a small airport, and a hotel.
GbY7 TIL the Amazon Rainforest area originally had terrible farming soil, until indigenous people invented a “superdirt” which remains fertile for thousands of years, renews and propagates by itself, and may currently cover as much as 10% of the Amazon basin.
7Ogp TIL Army PFC LaVena Johnson’s 2005 death at a base in Balad, Iraq was ruled a “suicide.” She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from corrosive chemicals on her genitals and a gunshot wound.
JYNAl TIL that in Australia, that a rabbit is a pest, so they do not celebrate with an Easter Bunny. They celebrate with the Easter Bilby.