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TIL that Potassium Benzoate is a food preservative and is safe to consume, with low toxicity

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MEAK TIL John Lasseter (from Pixar) was fired in 1984 by Disney after pitching an all computer animated movie, it would cost Disney 7 billion to bring him back after buying Pixar in 2006
kevE TIL that critic Michael Crowley gave such a poor review of one of author Michael Crichton’s books, that Crichton made a character ‘Mick Crowley’ in his next book, who was a child molester with a small penis.
xVLpD TIL that the bikini was invented by the frenchman Louis Réard in 1946. At the time, the USA were conducting Atomic Bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, and so Louis Réard named his two piece swimsuit the “Bikini” as it was what he referred to as an “Anatomic Bomb”
rRBRM TIL an ancient Mayan pyramid was torn down in 2013 and used for road fill!
E1jgP TIL that an American tea importer Thomas Sullivan accidentaly invented the tea bag when he sent samples to customers in silk pouches.