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TIL: that in Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they get lonely.

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4NVX TIL that during WWII the owner of Coca-Cola made sure “to see that every American in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola, wherever he is and whatever it costs the Company.”
9Y97D TIL that the name "Triscuit" comes from "electric baked biscuit", which was a marketing ploy in 1903 to make wheat crackers appear modern. At the time, no other crackers were baked electrically.
nW9mB TIL that Frank Sinatra is the artist with the most Grammy Album of the Year Nominations, at 8 nominations for that award. He was also the first artist to win the award twice, as well as first to win it three times. He also won 6 other Grammy awards and was nominated for 31 Grammys.
VMGDQ TIL John Delorean, creator of the DeLorean car, invented the first muscle car when he, against the wishes/policies of GM who were trying to distance their brand from racing, put a v8 engine into the Pontiac Tempest
mxWoo TIL of Sam Panopoulos, a Greek Canadian restaurateur who in 1962 at the Satellite restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, decided to put ham and pineapple on a pizza, aiming for something sweet and savory. He called it the Hawaiian pizza and his food invention has earned wrath and praise ever since.