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TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a Second Bill of Rights that included financial freedom from monopolies and unfair competition.

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awdMy TIL Brenda Vaccaro's 1980 Playtex Ad was infamous for her loud inhalations. Producers pulled the ad, took out her breathing, and re-released the ad, showing her taking breaths even though you could not hear them. It resulted in SCTV famously spoofing the Ad and the ad being pulled entirely.
yVGKJ TIL that the snus pack size is exactly the size of an ice hockey puck, because it was developed for ice hockey players, to fit in the puck pockets.
jNwGE Til About the Babe Ruth Story, a 1948 biopic of the eponymous baseball star that is considered to be the worst baseball film ever made. In it, Babe Ruth is portrayed as miraculously healing several children and a dog with his baseball antics.
oBj4R TIL: An Italian man released a "rap" song in 1972
8JMP TIL when Tracy Morgan was unavailable to finish recording the full-length version of “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” for 30 Rock, Donald Glover stepped in and completed the verses in his impression of Morgan. Glover also voices the ‘producer’ on the track.