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TIL that Russians almost surely didn’t put frogs in their milk to preserve it.

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6pP8 TIL Ron Goldman’s family won OJ Simpson’s MVP trophy in a civil suit and melted it down to make angel pins for people who donated to non-profits that helped battered women.
dkkK TIL Knowing that other companies might copy his hand soap idea, Softsoap creator Robert R. Taylor bought 100 million hand pumps from the only two U.S. manufacturers that made them. This ensured that competitors would be unable to buy them for a whole year.
W7XZN TIL when a library buys an ebook, they actually are only able to buy a licence to loan out that book for about 1-2 years, or until the book is loaned a few dozen times. They also are forced to pay several times what a normal consumer pays for an ebook
MW88 TIL Warner Brothers hated the name “Beetlejuice”, and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie “Scared Sheetless” and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
Jrg1 TIL A Chinese mathematical genius who had won a gold medal in the International Maths Olympiad denied a full Scholarship to MIT, and chose to become a monk in a Buddhist Monastery