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TIL Maria Sharapova has a candy company called Sugarpova. She was seriously considering changing her name to Sugarpova before the 2013 US Open.

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J1LGV TIL about guayule (pronounced why-OO-lee). An alternative to rubber trees, it has a rubber content of 3% - 7%. It can be grown in hot, desert climates requiring a fraction of the water/fertilizer that rubber trees do. It's also weed, insect and disease resistant. It was used by the US in WW2.
VB0 TIL in the 1931 movie, Frankenstein, the line “Now I know what it feels like to be God!” following “It’s alive! It’s alive!” was censored by audio of a clap of thunder because it was considered blasphemous and was only just restored in 1999, nearly 70 years later.
e0WjL TIL compulsive hoarding is actually more common in men than women
oR1JL TIL about Prince, the Irish terrier who followed his soldier owner, from London to Armentières, France, during the 1st world war. Both survived the war and returned home.
mxQ6P TIL that the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year in the plumbing and drain industry, and is commonly referred to as Brown Friday