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TIL Levi Strauss made his fortune initially by making pants out of tent canvas for miners during the 1850s Gold Rush

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e7og TIL King David, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great are the four kings in a deck of cards.
69vy8 TIL: In 2020, a betta fish was able to victoriously complete Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire on live stream with a control system mapped to his tank. Over 4 months, he completed the game by defeating the final champion and even discovered a game bug along the way.
WWvL TIL it’s a complete coincidence that the word “emoji” resembles “emotion”. It simply comes from the Japanese words e (“picture”) and moji (“character”).
9Yjgp TIL that the Venus flytrap naturally grows in very few areas in the Carolinas, so park rangers have to keep most of their grow sites a secret to keep them safe from poachers.
epVLL TIL the Great Bengal famine of 1769-71 killed 10 million people in India under Company rule. The population of Bengal declined by around a third.