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TIL Unilever used to have a whaling fleet

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YpWd7 TIL Coca-Cola marketing is partly responsible for the modern depiction of Santa Claus. Illustrator Haddon Sundblom drew Santa for a 1931 Coke ad in The Saturday Evening Post. His drawing was inspired by the 1822 poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (commonly called 'Twas the Night Before Christmas').
xB0o TIL George Holliday, the man who filmed Rodney King being beaten, met King only once, months later, randomly at a gas station. King thanked him for saving his life.
GYMWJ TIL that Ken Jennings' historic Jeopardy! run nearly ended before it began. Jennings' first Final Jeopardy answer of "Who is Jones" had to be adjudicated before it was allowed. If he hadn't been given credit, he would have finished in 3rd, on his first episode.
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4kDWo TIL there can be no avante gard art without direct threats to you in particular. that is right, you. you.