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TIL the award winning “Aussie Shampoo”, who’s brand logo is a kangaroo, is sold in Europe, Britain and the USA but not Australia. The company is based out of Ohio.

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0W7A TIL After a psychotherapy experiment in a convent 300 nuns petitioned the Vatican to be released from their vows leaving only a small group of radical lesbian nuns.
V9W0 TIL that Robin Williams dressed up as a Russian proctologist to humour Christopher Reeve right before his surgery with a 50% survival rate. Reeve stated: “For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.”
p8x1Q TIL that after their victory at the Battle of Marathon, the Greeks carved a statue of Nemesis (the goddess who punishes the arrogant) out of an enormous block of marble that the Persians had brought to the battle with the intention of carving a monument to their victory over the Greeks.
GYBM1 TIL Charles Quinton Brown Jr. is a United States Air Force four-star general and currently serves as the 22nd chief of staff of the Air Force. He is the first African-American to be appointed as Chief of Staff and the first African-American to lead any branch of the United States Armed Forces
gJW4 TIL Unisex names are illegal in Iceland