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TIL that the structural design of the Sears/Willis tower was inspired the way cigarettes come out of a pack.

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rZkw TIL the California grizzly bear is extinct
8amAK TIL Dion DiMucci recorded his song "Runaround Sue" with black musicians. In the music video, the black musicians were replaced by white actors playing musicians so that it can be played in the South at that time.
NaJ6 TIL Over 11,000 accidents occured between cyclists and drivers in the San Francisco area over 5 years. 60% of the time the cyclist caused the accident.
x5b TIL: Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir earns lots of money based on publishing her unpublished works. Which is essentially, living off the words of another. And not Objectivism.
dDD1B TIL Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man In The World” campaign was inspired by “The man in the Hathaway shirt” ads that ran in the 1950’s by world famous advertiser David Ogilvy