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TIL Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modelling clay for children and rebranded it.

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Zp5Xv TIL The 1976 Olympic games left Montreal with a $1.6 billion debt that was not satisfied until 2006.
6E1x8 TIL that the last Emperor of Rome Romulus Augustus, has a significant name because, the founder of Rome was called Romulus and the First Emperor of Rome was named Augustus. The circular nature of his death brings a lovely end to the story of Rome.
GAj TIL that in 1940 two Australian aircraft collided and stuck together mid-air, and made a safe landing still stuck together.
R5xDQ TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering 'financial compensation' to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000
R7yO7 TIL that in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen prisoners were forced to run marathons all day long to test shoes for the army and private shoe manufacturers. Those who stopped running due to exhaustion were shot.