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Today I learned Arizona Tea is actually a New York based company. It was named after Arizona because they thought it sounded clean and crisp

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16vJW Today I learned there is a city in Romania named ‘23 August’ after the 1944 royal coup
jN6Ea TIL that Paul Elliot of the Chuckle brothers was in a motorcycle crash while on holiday. Instead of helping him, tourists who stopped at the accident shouted the Chuckle Brothers' catchphrase, "To me, to you".
4wZR TIL that William Howard Taft who served as the 27th President of the United States over 100 years ago was the last President to have facial hair while in office
XGWX TIL “Little Mama” is believed to be the oldest chimpanzee in captivity, born in Africa in 1938.
yQYlp TIL Researchers submitted absurd fake studies to several feminist academic journals, to check their quality. Examples included copied passages of "Mein Kampf", a report on moon meetings with vulva shrines and chaining "priviliged" pupils. Several papers were published and one was called "exemplary".