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TIL Chevrolet's use of Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" to sell trucks was planned to last 3 to 6 months. It proved so powerful the campaign ran for 13 years.

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kdkB TIL- Green Beanery, an organic coffee shop in Toronto, says all their proficts go to their owner –Energy Probe Research Foundation–which they call a “federally registered environmental charity”. In reality, it is a lobbyist group for fossil fuel companies, owned by Lawrence Solomon
78ZMp TIL about the Macchina of Santa Rosa, a 30m/98ft high machine built to honour Saint Rose of Viterbo. Every year 100 men called "Facchini di Santa Rosa" hoist the machine, weighing about 5k kg/11k lb, and carry it through the streets of Viterbo, in Italy. The machine is rebuilt anew every five years
WkkaB The tiny bugs are marketed as a quick fix, but the body of evidence is miniscule.
ANk4n TIL The original version of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, which included more explicit references to homosexuality, wasn't published until 2011.
PXGg TIL about operation Vegetarian, a 1942 plan by the British military to drop linseed cakes infected with anthrax on German fields where they would be eaten by cows and thus infect the civilian population that ate them, the test site in Scotland remained uninhabitable until the 1990’s