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TIL in 2015 Sobe beverages in the US apologised for a joke that backfired. Some customers started voicing their concern after finding "Help me, Trapped in SoBe factory" under the lids of some of their bottles. Turns out the cry for help was intentionally put there by the company as a marketing ploy.

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rR8ge TIL 17th century twerking where "young wenches" indulged in a "wanton sport" called "moulding of Cocklebread" where they would "get upon a Tableboard, and […] they wabble to and fro with the Buttocks as if they were kneading of Dough with their Arses"
7Lyx TIL of Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ who ended up graduating from Yale with honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, moving back to his 'hood’ and teaching biology at his old highschool, engineering his own strain of Marijuana and getting killed over a drug deal
Y7RLd TIL: Lead is still a major pollutant and are largely being recycled under dangerous conditions by largely extremely poor populations.
1GKW TIL John DiMaggio, mostly famous for being the voice behind Futurama’s Bender, is also the voice of Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, Four Arms from Ben 10, Schnitzel from Chowder, Marcus Fenix from Gears of War, Brutes from the Halo Series and the list goes on.
v1LBB TIL of Eugene Bostwick, a retired Texas farmer who kept taking in dogs that people abandoned at the dead-end street near his horse barn; he would feed the dogs & take them to the vet to get spayed & neutered. He built a "dog train" in order to take all his dogs out at the same time with his tractor.