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TIL Ping Pong is the name of a company that sells table tennis equipment whereas table tennis is the name of the sport.

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J18Rl TIL Hippocrates taught human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. To be healthy you need them to be in correct proportion, both in strength and quantity, and well mixed
NXY5b TIL Carrot Top is the son of a NASA engineer
wLJv7 TIL the Maori in New Zealand had their own dogs, but they couldn't survive breeding with the european dogs so died out within 100 years of Captain cook's first voyage.
neLkr TIL: It is completely legal for women to be topless in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
ykme TIL ice cream contains all 3 states of matter - gas, solid and liquid (air bubbles, ice crystals, and milk) - and is considered both an oil-in-water emulsion and a foam. Much more complex than I thought!