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TIL that Amish businesses have a 95% success rate at staying open at least five years

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dAW7 TIL that Sylvan Goldman, inventor of the shopping cart, had to hire actors to walk around his store pushing shopping carts to convince customers to use them. Men didn’t want to seem feminine by using them and women didn’t want to feel like they were pushing a baby buggy.
wLdXE TIL being typecast as a cowboy, Sam Elliot hoped for a different role when he received The Big Lebowski script. The role turned out to be a cowboy and the Cohen brothers actually wrote in the script that this cowboy 'sounding not unlike Sam Elliott' and 'looking not unlike Sam Elliot'.
0w95j TIL Harvard majors are called "concentrations," and before WWII, students often innocently referred to the school as "The Concentration Camp"
Ooj71 TIL Mud or “dirt” daubers are harmless wasps that rarely attack humans, females prey on spiders to feed their young sometimes fitting up to 25 in a single cell, and when their larvae reach maturity the new adult burrows their way out. Blue dirt daubers prefer black widows.
OGDRR TIL the oldest octopus fossil ever found is about 330 million years old.