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TIL after being scolded by a woman who felt that his shoes were too expensive for kids, Shaq forwent a $40 million deal with Reebok & signed one with Walmart. He then brought in designers from Reebok so that his Walmart shoes would look costlier than the $20 price. Over 400 million pairs were sold.

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p8mDN TIL - A study performed at the University of Plymouth wanted to test the claim that an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters would create the works Shakespeare. They got funding for six monkeys for one month. They produced five pages of text which consisted mainly of the letter "s".
gE6y TIL if the 1972 Andes plane crash survivors went East instead of West, they would have found a hotel 18 miles down the valley instead of hiking 37 miles and climbing a 15,000ft mountain.
P15pG TIL a pizzeria owner discovered DoorDash was conducting a "demand test" and had a lower price for his pizza even though he had not asked for the pizzeria to be on the app. The owner ordered 10 pizzas on the app, paid $160, and had them delivered to a friend. DoorDash paid the restaurant $240.
v11ZK TIL Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to be dragged behind horses until dead. Then their genitals cut off and burnt before their eyes before their dead bodies were decapitated
mOEE TIL Chicken wings used to be discarded as waste, but a creative restaurant owner out of food barbecued and served them in ‘64, creating buffalo wings. Named after the city, not the animal.