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TIL the production of the Barbie movie required so much pink that they caused a run on the world's supply of pink paint. Due to supply chain issues because of covid there was limited quantities which the company that provides materials for the film industry used for the film.

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Px0n TIL after winning the Nobel prize, Niels Bohr was given a house with unlimited free beer on tap by Carlsberg brewery.
VBgmD TIL Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell is the first woman in 224 years to command the U.S.S. Constitution. The oldest active Navy ship in the U.S.
44V6 TIL that multiple Japanese Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers, and Emperors have apologized for the country’s action during WWII
P5ZV TIL that Napoleon was taller than both Lenin and Stalin
d8VB7 TIL that Nicholas cage did shrooms with his cat Lewis. I remember lying in my bed for hours," he went on, "and Lewis was on the desk across from the bed for hours, staring at each other . . . not moving. But he would stare at me," Nicolas concluded sagely, "and I had no doubt that he was my brother.