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TIL the Green Bay Packers are named after the Indian Packing Company, who paid for their first uniforms on the condition the team be named after them.

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N7wK8 TIL "Earth Simulator" is one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet with nearly 35 trillion operations per second and it's used to model Earth's Climate
WvEA TIL that the “Miracle Berry” fruit, a novelty that makes bitter foods taste sweet, has been used to help chemo patients increase their food intake.
QJ6JL TIL that 87 men died on the Potomac after two ships collided while searching for John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
PYbpE TIL that Roald Dahl, while stationed in America in World War 2, slept with countless high society women while gathering intelligence. According to one socialite friend, Dahl had a “whole stable” of women, and “he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that had more than $50,000 a year."
9YGAB TIL about Job Maseko, a Black South African volunteer soldier, who sunk Nazi ship using IED made from tin and stolen gunpowder during his time at POW camp in North Africa