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TIL a priceless Roman marble bust was sold at a Texas Goodwill for $35

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MevVV Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
x6pnD TIL that in the original Grease musical, Sandy was not Australian. When she was cast, Olivia Newton-John agreed to be paid at a lower rate in exchange for rewriting the script to make Sandy Australian so she wouldn't need to do an American accent.
gMXr9 TIL in 1977, the Mego Corporation decided to pass on the license for creating Star Wars action figures, unimpressed with the movie. Kenner/Hasbro subsequently took it, and since then has grossed over 6 billion dollars from the figures alone
x6VB0 TIL that a small part of southern Florida is the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators coexist.
8eB8K TIL that Olympic silver medalist and former World champion figure skater Michelle Kwan currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to Belize