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TIL Peta Kills About 85% of the Animals They “Save”

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m1KJO TIL The song Rubber Duckie from Sesame Street peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970
lo5D5 TIL: Payless, a brand known for budget-friendly shoes, opened a fake pop-up store called "Palessi" in a Los Angeles mall and invited people to the grand opening. The store was stocked with Payless shoes in disguise. One shopper spent $640 for a pair of boots.
0wW6N TIL that the title of Pantera's 1992 album "Vulgar Display of Power" was inspired by a line in "The Exorcist". When Father Karras asks Regan why she can't make the straps restraining her disappear if she's supposedly the devil, she replies, "That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras."
oR4D7 TIL in 10 years, mid '60s to mid '70s, the transport across the Atlantic went from steam powered liner ships to mach 2 supersonic airliner.
nYEd TIL there’s a counterargument to the use of Occam’s razor in the medical profession called Hickam’s dictum. It states that “patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.”