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TIL Cashmere Wool Comes From Goats, Not Sheep

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E1nxV TIL the word 'jehovah’ is a latinised derivative of God's given name 'YHWH’, this translated abbreviation stemming from 4 Hebrew consonants called the ‘tetragrammaton’ considered too sacred to utter and whose letters were replaced by latin-speaking Christian scholars.
AD4X4 TIL that one of the co-founders of United fruit company (a.k.a Chiquita brand) began importing bananas to US to pay off a debt from building a railroad in Costa Rica. Bananas were originally planted along the railway to feed the workers.
PY9bE TIL that when Mister Rogers filed a police report on his car being stolen, it was returned 48 hours later with a note that read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
vanj TIL Contrary to popular belief, Einstein never failed math. In fact, by fifteen he had already mastered differential and integral calculus.
JYKr1 TIL that Canada's nuclear escape bunker was built with a track around the interior vault and pullup bars so the soldiers assigned to it could stay fit during a nuclear apocalypse. The interior was painted in soft colors to try and minimize stress.