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TIL Al Green’s song “Take Me To The River” earned more royalties from the Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic toy than any other recording of it.

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Ooera TIL that the RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, rammed a U-Boat and sunk it, making it the only merchant ship in World War I to have sunk an enemy vessel.
e0xbk TIL Mississippi is the only U.S. state that allows people to drink alcohol while driving, as long as their blood alcohol level stays below the legal limit
69Be7 TIL there is a growing market for pharmaceutical drugs made in space. The lack of gravity can improve the efficiency of certain chemical processes making space drugs commercially promising.
P0Pg TIL Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Packard won the toss and put Hewlett’s name first.
wLrBM TIL Cows can cough and it can be a symptom of longworm, bovine tuberculosis or many others