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TIL the Michelin guide (where the best restaurants are catalogued) was a marketing tool for the Michelin tire company. (I always thought the name was just coincidence.)

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x6yXg TIL Toni Stone was a female baseball player that played in the male leagues during the late 1940’s and 50’. Her play was praised by the likes of Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron.
YgA7 TIL things with a “Made in America” label are often times up to 90% made outside of the USA!
pykp TIL the Twitter handle “Apple” has 31.4k followers… and zero tweets.