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TIL Facebook ads are not generated based on your specific liked pages. But instead they gather information from what you browse on the web.

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407R TIL the original Ghostbusters trailer featured a 1-800 number, not a 555 number, which led to a prerecording of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. They got 1,000 calls per hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks.
PY6NZ TIL Artificial Banana Flavored Food tastes more like what bananas used to taste like and bananas today don't taste as they should
jvrp TIL that although Freddie Mercury was known for his large vocal range, he was actually a baritone. He didn’t believe that his fans would recognize his voice unless he sang as a tenor.
wLwxJ TIL NBA player Shaquille O’Neal requested to be (and now is) the spokesperson for The General car insurance because he was a customer while in College and remains a customer to this day
4LGo TIL when reviewing the 1948 movie “Isn’t it Romantic,” reviewer Leonard Maltin simply replied “No” which is the shortest review ever given to a motion picture