Post * EgmgW — Curious Curator

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TIL that outside the US and Canada, Duracell uses a pink bunny as a mascot. The Energizer Bunny was created in 1988 to mock Duracell, after Duracell’s pink bunny trademark in the US had expired. The two companies later agreed that Duracell would keep using a bunny mascot in other regions.

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x5O5 TIL that a Chinese Billionaire is selling canned air in China to highlight the country’s pollution problems. The air is collected and compressed in soda cans from “revolutionary regions” around the country.

x68Nb TIL that Kit Kat wafers are actually made from ground up Kit Kat rejects.

wLEaE TIL that the US Pentagon has the high number of 284 toilets, which is twice as much as the actual needs for the staff. The Pentagon avoids talking about this fact because it is due to the racial segregation laws in force in Virginia during the construction of the building, between 1941 and 1943.

QgGa TIL In 1957, an explosion occurred at a plutonium plant in the USSR, resulting in the third worst nuclear accident in history. The government kept it secret for 19 years.

oBLDr TIL: Victor Goldschmidt, the founder of modern geochemistry carried a Cyanide pill as a last resort if captured by Nazi's. When a colleague asked him to create one for him, he stated, "Cyanide is for chemists; you, being a professor of mechanical engineering, will have to use the rope."