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TIL the first Got Milk? commercial, “Aaron Burr,” was directed by Michael Bay.

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JYQZ8 TIL that boxer Jimmy Doyle, who died fighting Sugar Ray Robinson for the Welterweight title in 1947, challenged Robinson to the fight in order to buy his mother a house. After Doyle's death, Robinson gave the earnings from his next four fights to Doyle's mother so she could buy that house.
5YNZn TIL that each year, a social group called the Alfalfa Club, which includes elites from both business and government, celebrate General Robert E. Lee's birthday with a banquet
wLvp6 TIL The design of carburetors in British WWII fighter aircraft had a fault that would shut down the aircraft's engine during a negative-G force maneuver. In 1941 a female engineer solved the problem with a simple device, which British pilots then named after her. It was named Miss Shilling's orifice
eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
yQgn8 TIL Argentavis magnificens was among the largest flying birds ever to exist, with a wingspan of up to 26ft.