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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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loRD7 TIL Cats have genetic similarities to humans and are an excellent model to study human infectious diseases.
R79R1 TIL of Seki Takakazu, a mathematician described as "Japan's Newton", who independently discovered many results attributed to his European contemporaries, some of which were rediscovered only centuries later.
OobwR TIL I learned the 1994 movie title 'The Santa Clause' is a pun and not the correct spelling of "Santa Claus."
epMgD TIL about Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot who disappeared during a flight in 1978 after reporting an unidentified object following him and saying, 'It's not an aircraft.'
5V0LQ TIL 24 year old George Jetson knocked up Jane when she was 16 or 17.