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TIL that a Winnie The Pooh cast member was on trial in costume and only able to communicate through head nods, foot stomps and swings of his tummy

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WANL TIL a tree was planted in L.A. in memory of George Harrison of the Beatles, just to later die due to an infestation of beetles.
e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
JVdv TIL The first woman to run for President was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, almost 50 years before women could vote.
rnW0 TIL, in 1986, a sysadmin looking into a $0.75 accounting error uncovered a KGB hacker that was stealing nuclear secrets
lo18r TIL Afghanistan didn't have a national anthem from 1996 to 2001 since the Taliban considered music to be haram and banned it.