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TIL that in year 2000, 41 million dollars was spent to promote the new Sacagawea golden dollar. Television ads consisted of the head of George Washington superimposed upon a body, voiced by actor Michael Keaton, discussing the merits of the new dollar coin. The coin ended up being a failure.

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MeRNm TIL if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs arrived just 30 seconds later, it would have landed in deep ocean water which would have absorbed much of the force of the impact. The resulting extinction would have been less severe, many dinosaur species would have survived, and humans would not exist
VM9YD TIL that the inventor of Velcro took 20 years to take his idea from concept to production and even then the apparel industry wasn't sold on it. It wasn't until NASA came along asking about it for use in space that the fashion industry then went wild due to it now being space aged.
66bQ TIL “… economists have pointed out that if all the money spent on federal antipoverty programs were given to [the poor], a family of four would have an annual income near $70,000. [They] get less than half the money [given] in their name; most goes to fund the bureaucracies that run the programs.”
r55d TIL a man once said “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper” before being executed. This is a direct quoute from Bill and Ted
m1M1M TIL Douglas Adams conceived the hitchhikes guide while “lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck… Inebriated beneath the swirling stars, clutching a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe, Adams decided that someone should devise a similar guidebook to the whole of the Milky Way.”