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TIL that ZZ Top refused a $1,000,000 offer from Gilette to shave their beards for an ad.

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jgkN TIL Notorious English pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold (1680–1719) once attacked a ship off the coast of Honduras just to replace his crew’s hats (they had drunkenly lost them the night before)
oNlR TIL that during WWII, the British made vitamin C syrup from rose hips because the German subs were sinking commercial ships carrying citrus fruits.
m1Ppv TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar
8kkX TIL that 15 girls died in Saudi Arabia after the religious police refused to let them leave their burning building because they were not properly dressed.
rRWb1 TIL When Liechtenstein's army went to war for the last time in 1868, the country sent 80 soldiers to guard an Italian mountain pass. They returned with 81 soldiers because they befriended an Austrian on the way home.