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TIL Experian, the credit reporting agency, sells your personal information to other companies.

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E1EOp TIL a beaver "named ‘Geronimo,' was dropped again and again" by parachute to test a radical beaver relocation plan. Geronimo's success led to the relocation of 76 beavers via parachute. Geronimo had priority reservation on the first ship into the hinterland, and three young females went with him.
dNrE TIL In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
epgBD TIL the oldest known human drawing is a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched pattern made with ochre on stone flake, found in South Africa. This discovery predates previously known drawings by at least 30,000 years, revealing early Homo sapiens' ability to create symbolic designs using various techniques.
d8Q0r TIL sugar has at least 56 different names.
ADQBw TIL Thursday is National Cuban Sandwich Day, a “holiday” invented by a newspaper reporter in Florida to prove a point about how easy it is to invent dumb food holidays. Despite that, Cuban Sandwich Day continues to appear on calendars and is celebrated annually by restaurants around the world.