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TIL Paul Newman, while attending a small college in central Ohio, began a laundry service out of his dorm room. Newman’s Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was a success, earning the young entrepreneur the nickname “The Laundry Man of T-Barracks” in 1949.

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GYLKG TIL after the infamous German cannibal case of Armin Meiwes and his willing 'victim' Bernd Brandes in 2001, Detlev Guenzel repeated that act in 2013, on the same site Meiwes found his victim.
8awpL TIL a 143 ton 'fatberg' was found underneath London in 2017, shutting down a major sewer line. They are created from flushed animal fat, oils, wet wipes and diapers. They have become a major problem in many major cities.
N7k9Q TIL about Humphrey the whale. Entered San Francisco Bay two times in 1985 and 1990. Both of his bay incursions resulted in rescue by the Marine Mammal Center, based in Marin County, California, assisted by the United States Coast Guard and hundreds of other volunteers.
y1Pa TIL while developing the 1994 hit game “Donkey Kong Country,” programmers found that real-life gorillas moved too slow for a fast-paced game. Instead, Donkey Kong’s movements were based off a horse’s gallop.
lwrr TIL a man in Shaanxi, China, recently realized that the long-handled, blunt-ended object he’d been using for 25 years to crack walnuts was actually a live hand grenade.