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TIL there is a robust black market for Tide laundry soap, with drug dealers accepting it as payment and shoplifting rings finding it more lucrative and less legally risky than other illegal schemes.

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1VR4 TIL that there is a ‘Museum of Failed Products’ in Ann Arbor, containing thousands of consumer products that never took off, including gems like Clairol’s A Touch of Yoghurt shampoo and Pepsi’s AM Breakfast Cola.
6xVl TIL that PS2 owners in Brazil can stream Netflix to their console
7Dx TIL LSD can help cure alcoholism
VMvVp TIL Brandon Lee was killed during the production of the movie The Crow. Several years later stuntman Marc Akerstream was killed during the production of a TV show based on the movie.
P18GG TIL that Dwight Eisenhower took up painting during the last twenty years of his life and did about 260 paintings including a portrait of Abraham Lincoln