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TIL In 2011, Toyota announced that, through a public voting campaign, the plural of Prius is Prii, pronounced "pree-eye".

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dabK TIL more than 2000 elderly Hollywood writers, unwilling to write for explicit modern sensibilities, are now writing for Chinese television instead. They’re the Emmy-winning minds behind classic TV like Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice & The Jeffersons.
OGeO4 TIL To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost in the US and never recovered. One fell in the Pacific Ocean and quickly sank in 16,000 feet of water and is believed to still be there today. Another one was dropped in Georgia by the aircraft carrying it and was never found.
aworM TIL about the Battle of Jumonville Glen, in which a young George Washington ambushed a French Canadian outpost. This became the opening battle of the French and Indian War.
7yXb TIL that a man in Saudi Arabia installed a fridge on the street and stocks it with free food for the homeless people in his neighborhood.
m1O7O TIL Matt Groening (Creator of the Simpsons) had Marge and Homer Simpson named after his mother and father, Lisa and Maggie Simpson after his younger sisters, and Abraham Simpson after his own grandfather.