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TIL that in 1992, Little Caesar's founder Mike Ilitch bought the Detroit Tigers baseball team from Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan.

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P1PMZ TIL the Lane Bryant clothing company got its name because a banker misspelled the founder's first name on her account application
KkA9 TIL Family Guy faced a boycott from a group called ProudSponsorsUSA because of the offensive nature of the show. It turned out to be just Richardson Schell who was the headmaster of MacFarlane’s High School. He was actually upset because of the use of the name Griffin, the name of Schell’s assistant
VMnjk TIL that by 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert
l1Or TIL Michael Jackson cast 80 members of the Los Angeles’ Crips and Bloods for the music video “Beat It” in hopes to foster peace between them.
Vv1p TIL during WWI a British recruitment tool called the “Pals Battalion” allowed people from the same town to enter the military together. Though it increased enlistment rolls, it also devastated whole regions of the UK whenever a battalion experienced heavy casualties. By WWII the idea was abandoned.