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TIL in medieval times Great Danes were thought to ward against evil spirits and ghosts. Scooby Doo is a Great Dane

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9obp TIL the sanitary napkin was invented in 1919 because Kimberly-Clark needed a post-war product that used the material they developed for WWI bandages. Kotex stands for “cotton textile.”
16xg7 TIL Stephen Hawking's famous wheelchair was sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds. Hawking used this wheelchair from the end of the 1980s until the early years of the 1990s, before he became unable to use his hands to drive a wheelchair
WkwnN TIL Amway, the infamously successful MLM company, its Chinese ‘sale reps’ were so toxic that its name in Chinese, AN LI, has entered the vernacular to mean to “promote heavily” or to “be brainwashed.”
R7p18 TIL A bottle of Coca-Cola cost one nickel (5 cents) between 1886 and 1959. The price remained fixed with very little fluctuation. In 1953, Coca-Cola approached the US Treasury to request minting a 7.5 cent coin.
YpJ17 TIL Winston Churchill gets a doctor’s note to drink “unlimited” alcohol in Prohibition America