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YyWd TIL that in the 2010 BP gulf oil spill BP and the US Coast Guard used a “chemical dispirsant” that they claimed broke up the oil. Instead it just sank the oil temporarily, made it 52x more toxic, did nothing to clean it up, and is extremely poisonous. BP knew all of this before using it
nWNgG TIL Sylvester Graham was a 19th century antebellum American reformer who spoke out in favor of healthy living, including avoiding meats, alcohol, and too much sexual activity. He created a bland cracker, the Graham cracker, to stop the need for sexual intimacy
8b5X TIL Howard the Duck was such a massive failure that producer George Lucas was forced to sell the CGI department of LucasFilms to Steve Jobs, which became Pixar Animation Studios.
78W77 TIL Brazilian footballer Rivaldo grew up in poverty and suffered such malnourishment it caused caused bowleggedness and the loss of several adult teeth, and coaches saying he was too physically weak to succeed . Despite this he went onto win the World Cup, the Champions League and the Ballon d'Or.
OG5a TIL that while filming an episode of Hercules, Kevin Sorbo misread a stage direction as a line and dramatically screamed “DISAPPOINTED”. They left it in