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TIL Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media companies, is paid a licensing fee for every Guy Fawkes mask sold

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69d4l TIL one of P.T. Barnum’s promotions featured a “6 Foot-Tall Man Eating Chicken,” which was actually a 6-foot-tall man munching on a chicken leg.
kJWQE TiL that while primary endosymbiosis, which originated the plastids and the mitochondria, happened only once, secondary endosymbiosis happened several types, giving rise to many different, unrelated groups of algae that got their plastids by engulfing other eukaryotes that had engulfed bacteria!
4koj6 TIL in case Star Wars was a failure, George Lucas commissioned a low-budget sequel called "Splinter of the Mind's Eye."
v17nr TIL that the color “isabelline,” a yellowish-white, may have been named after Isabella I of Castile swore not to change her shift until the siege of Granada was over, expecting a quick victory; the siege took 8 months
AN9p7 TIL the 1999 hit song She's So High was written and performed by the son of one of the founders of the Guess Who and BTO