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TIL Babe Ruth started chewing tobacco and drinking whiskey at age 7

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EgemV TIL Robert Taylor popularized hand soap from a pump when his company introduced Softsoap in 1978. To forestall competition from larger companies, he ordered 100 million pumps from the only existing US manufacturers. The $12 million buy prevented the giants from matching his product for over a year.
GAw14 TIL Mexican actress Silvia Pinal smuggled the last remaining copy of the film Virdiana out of Spain after the Vatican ordered all other copies destroyed
e06bb TIL the Founder of Kodak, George Eastman, insisted the company use a 13 month, 28 day per month calendar. This system would be used by Kodak as the official date system from 1928 to 1989.
X85D TIL Fifteen years ago, an amateur astronomer discovered an asteroid that turned out to be part of an Apollo rocket that disappeared 30 years earlier.
OoKo1 TIL that in Chinese/Peking Opera, a character wearing armor with flags on his/her back was meant to represent a general leading an army. Two such characters fighting on stage meant that a battle between two armies was taking place.