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TIL that the 30 second ad on television was created after tobacco companies could no longer advertise (1971), that the 15 second ad was inspired by MTV (1984), and that the "unskippable" 5 second ad was created by Geico after research showed 94 percent of YouTube viewers skipped prerolled ads (2015)

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XEeX6 TIL the idiom "When my ship comes in" originated with sailors' wives who promised to pay off debts when the sailors' ships returned to port.
rRavW TIL In English Criminal Law, you cannot kill a person for food, even out of necessity. In 1884, three sailors were stuck out at sea and killed the weakest one for food. After being rescued, they were found guilty of murder. This set a legal precedent which continues today
O0pe TIL: Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888. But it proved unusable, receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day – mostly from babies playing with the phone.
eGj6 TIL the Dutch King had secretly been piloting commercial KLM airplanes as a “relaxing hobby” for 21 years as of May, 2017
Bmvr TIL That a “Hearing Protection Act” has been introduced which would remove the heavy taxes and wait periods for firearm suppressors, letting them be purchased like guns.