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TIL The fancy antique bottle which Jeannie called home was actually a decorative Jim Beam liquor decanter, which originally contained "Beam's Choice" Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.

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9Vyp TIL Taco Bell sold 100 Million Doritos Locos tacos in the first 10 weeks. It took McDonald’s 18 years to sell the same amount of burgers
88ya TIL the police report detailing the incident between Chris Brown and Robyn Fenty is online. Brown’s assault included knocking Fenty’s head into the passenger-side window, repeatedly punching and strangling her to near unconsciousness before a resident in the neighborhood heard Fenty’s plea for help.
R7Op8 TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.
QmZ9 TIL that in 1971, phone phreaker John Draper discovered a way to gain free minutes for long-distance, AT&T calls. He would blow a toy, ‘Captain Crunch’ whistle, which had the same 2600-hertz tone that indicated a trunk line was ready to be put through, and gain access to additional minutes.
QJ6Q6 TIL in 1991, comic book writer Fabian Nicieza released a series called NFL SuperPro, starring an ex-NFL player superhero, with the main villain being an assassin called Instant Replay. Nicieza later revealed that his sole motivation for writing the series was getting free New York Jets tickets