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TIL that Betty Crocker was never a real person. She was created for a Gold Medal Flour ad in 1921. Shortly after the company decided to use the character to answer all the baking and cooking questions received by mail, as a woman was a more trusted source of baking information than an all male staff

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6EY4X TIL Prince Philip (husband of Queen Elizabeth) is revered as a deity in a Vanuatuan "cargocult". When his disciples sent him a traditional pig-killing club, he sent them back a photo of him posing with it.
EgV5V TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days afloat in the Pacific Ocean aboard an 8' square wooden raft. When rescued and told that no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply answered, "I hope no one will ever have to break that record."
ANwA4 TIL A man who called his ex-girlfriend 1,011 times in a few weeks, hired two companies to put up missing posters of the woman around Vancouver and created fake social media accounts for her received a suspended sentence and three years’ probation for criminal harassment
Xwkj TIL that Keanu Reeves was set to star in the live adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, a film that currently resides in “development hell”.
x44w TIL of the legend of Sir Francis Drake’s drum. On his deathbed he requested that the drum be returned to England, and if ever they came under attack, one was to beat the drum and he would return to protect the country.