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TIL when the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in 1967, they had the name of the man who wore their mascot costume engraved on the cup.

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Z81gv TIL that The Hoover Company had a free flights promotion in the 90s: customers were offered free return tickets to the USA if they purchased at least $120 worth of products; it ended in disaster and the company is said to have cancelled the promotion and reneged on its offers, leading to litigation.
Y7VWW TIL that in 1993, the World Wrestling Federation released "WrestleMania: The Album". Simon Cowell (the exec producer) conceived the project after learning that the WWF wrestlers had sold out Wembley Stadium in 27 minutes.
9YmJp TIL Bill Gates never said that he would “Chose to hire a lazy person as they would make a hard job easy”. This quote was originally attributed to Clarence Bleicher in 1947 at a Senate testimony.
9kLB TIL there’s a valve in fetal hearts that diverts blood away from the lungs while in utero. It begins closing at the first breath as the baby gets oxygen from it’s own lungs for the first time.
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