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TIL Yao Ming was a chemically engineered propaganda experiment that went well.

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OoxP7 TIL ABBA's tour costumes were designed by Owe Sandström in close consultation with the band, and national costumes (Japanese, Latin American) were inspirations. ABBA had duplicates of each outfit and the backing musicians and singers had costumes, so a few hundred costumes went on tour
1awp4 TIL In 1994, after hearing of the impending Y2K glitch, a man trademarked the date “01-01-00” and by the year 2000 it had earned him over $260 million in royalties
obGR TIL more cops have died of illness linked to 9/11 than had perished in it on that day
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p1Qb TIL That a Russian scientist selectively bred foxes that tolerated human contact and after 40 generations had animals that were not only friendly to humans but were different from wild foxes in numerous other ways as a result