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TIL that when trying to select a new name for the Canadian Northwest Territories the name Bob came in second place in the top choices

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X7dQ TIL that Wikus van der Merwe from District 9 was nearly 100% improvised (ad-libbed)
LYR0 TIL Vin Scully called Sandy Koufax’s perfect game (1965), Hank Aaron’s 715th HR (1974), “The Catch” (1982), Bill Buckner’s error (1986), and Kirk Gibson’s home run (1988). BTW he still announces Dodger baseball today.
bppa TIL a botched embalming job on Pope Pius XII (died 1958) caused his body to rapidly decompose while laying in state. The Vatican Swiss guards guarding the body had to be changed every 10 minutes because the awful smell caused some of them to pass out.
b6p1N TIL Injera is a thin, soft fermented baked Ethiopian food made of teff flour using two rounds of complex fermentation process for 24 to 96 hours. It involves making absit first, or fermenting dough leftover after waste water is removed
Oo7x6 TIL of Richard Tarvin III. A man who sold part of his structured settlement annuity (SSA) worth more than $400,000 to J.G. Wentworth claims the financial services company took advantage of him and fraudulently advised him to use an attorney who was not "disinterested counsel."