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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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X0ZQj TIL the US Air Force uses C130s to drop toys and supplies in Micronesia every Christmas
d8ZLj TIL that a high school basketball coach was fired after his team won 100-0 because the Catholic school he worked for thought that winning by such a wide margin did not show a “Christlike and honourable approach to competition”.
Y7elG TIL in Japan they used to keep time so that there was always 6 hours of night and 6 hours of day, so an “hour” changed length in winter and summer
oRdB7 TIL back in February 1972, Franken Berry cereal caused some children’s feces to turn pink, a condition dubbed “Franken Berry stool,” due to an indigestible pigment. The recipe, along with Count Chocula’s, was quickly reformulated to remove the pigment.
kBe TIL that the plot of Finding Nemo would not have unfolded anywhere close to how it did in the movie. Clown fish are hermaphrodites so when Marlin’s wife died, Marlin would have changed his gender and become a female and raise Nemo, who would have then mate with Marlin and have children of their own