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TIL the Temple University Owls mascot was chosen because Temple began as a night school for young people of limited means

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0KK1 TIL that the USSR renamed its rocket base Baikonur in 1961 to keep the Soviet space program a secret. Residents of the original Baikonur, hundreds of km away, took advantage of the resulting confusion by ordering many valuable supplies for themselves before the scam was discovered.
8eK6K TIL that the creator of Lululemon deliberately chose a name with multiple 'L's to sound Western to Japanese buyers, who often have difficulty pronouncing the letter, and that the name otherwise "means nothing".
R5lNj TIL some sharks lay mermaid purses
koNg TIL Heath Ledger gave Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros cash so they could record their first album
nvGP TIL Washington State has the highest minimum wage in the US ($9.19/hr; tips don’t count) and four states have minimum wages lower than the federal minimum wage (with Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15/hr)