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TIL that strawberry boxes are called punnets, and that their inventor was an ancestor of the creator of the Punnet square

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XEZN6 TIL that Gene Simmons of Kiss saw Van Halen at a club in 1976 and decided to produce a demo tape for them. However, when he took the demo tape to Kiss management he was told that "they had no chance of making it" and that they wouldn't take them, so he opted out of further involvement.
lolD1 TIL that the sum of all numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
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JYLy4 TIL Early in his naval career, Horatio Nelson nearly died while fighting a polar bear. Wanting the bear’s pelt as a gift for his father, Nelson’s gun misfired and he attacked the bear with the butt of his rifle. He was only saved when his ship fired a cannon that scared the bear and it ran off.
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