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TIL that you are more creative when you are tired or drunk

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9Y97D TIL that the name "Triscuit" comes from "electric baked biscuit", which was a marketing ploy in 1903 to make wheat crackers appear modern. At the time, no other crackers were baked electrically.
67Om TIL that the key ingredient in most dryer sheets is beef fat
6rlw TIL that Art Garfunkel likes really long walks. So much so that from 1983 to 1997, he walked from NYC to the Pacific Coast of Washington State with 40 different short breaks. In 1998, he began a walk across Europe which he completed in 2011 with Northern Greece.
GYDvE TIL that McDonalds sued Irish fast food chain Supermac for trade mark infringement but failed and ended up losing their Big Mac trade mark as well because they were unable to prove that they had used the Big Mac trade mark in the EU.
rNymW TIL that classical guitarist legend Andres Segovia gave 5,402 concerts, appearing on stage every year from 1909 to 1987 starting at the age of 16 with his final performance at 94. He toured 60 countries and 723 cities. He produced about 50 long-playing records.