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TIL: Nike's logo, the swoosh, was designed for $35

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R9Gw TIL that Miller Lite’s sales increased dramatically after the company changed its cans back to the original 1975 white branding.
woxOE TIL that questions have been raised about the legitimacy of Queen Victoria and that she may have been the result of an affair with a non-royal. This has revolved around the hereditary haemophilia that she was the carrier for, and that hadn’t been detected in the royal bloodline previously.
RJk7 TIL that Alert, Nunavut, a military signals intelligence facility located at the northernmost tip of Canadian soil, is closer to Moscow than it is to Ottawa.
oRx4A TIL of NYC's Clean Car Program: after years of unsuccessfully preventing tagging of parked subway cars, NYC changed its approach in 1984. Any cars with graffiti were cleaned within two hours or removed from service. The last graffiti covered car was removed from service on May 12, 1989.
60Em TIL that Japan still executes people by hanging, with those on death row only notified the morning before the execution and are kept in solitary confinement until execution day.