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TIL babies can dream from day one (and possibly even before birth)

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OKRY TIL Gladiators carried out product endorsements in the arena. Ridley Scott left this tidbit out of the movie “Gladiator” for fear that this would seem anachronistic.
b9eOj TIL that Sears created well-know financial services brands to sell diversified products in it's stores like Discover Card, Allstate Insurance, Caldwell Banker and Dean Witter, only to sell them off later when they became valuable entities.
8eV48 TIL William Steig, the author of the original 1990 Shrek! book, saw the 2001 film adaptation when he was in his 90s. Despite the movie deviating significantly from his book, Steig loved it, famously describing it as, "It's vulgar, it's disgusting — and I loved it".
9EaX TIL that there is an old Finnish unit of measurement used by the Sami people called ‘poronkusema’ which translates to “a reindeer piss”. It’s the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
GDgQ TIL that Quiznos sued one of its franchisees because they did not put enough meat on their sandwiches. The franchisee counter-sued Quiznos and won.