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TIL the Indian Ocean was called "Eastern Ocean" through the mid-18th century, but the Chinese used to call it "Western Ocean"

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9wbNX TIL of the General Strike of 1842 when English workers went on strike, demanding their government act in their interest.
V1Nm TIL about Tillie, a hiking dog in Kentucky whose tag simply read ““My name is Tillie. I am not a stray. I live next door. Let’s go for a hike”
d8vJr TIL there exists 2 pornographic movies from 1993 based on the Super Mario video game series called „Super Hornio Brothers” that Nintendo bought rights to, in order to halt their distribution.
JYQpQ TIL That in 1991 influential and bestselling hip-hop lyricist Ice-T was among the first rappers to express comments supportive of the LGBT community
GmE7 TIL that William Boyd and David Bowie created a fictional (hoax) artist called Nat Tate with an aim to expose the pretensions of the art world.