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TIL as part of the plan to keep the design of Godzilla from the 1998 movie a secret, Sony sent out fake designs to marketing partners to see who was loyal. Fruit of the Loom leaked the design and lost their Godzilla license.

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jNNrp TIL that in 1919, William Little, an African American soldier who fought in World War I, was lynched because he refused to take off his uniform when he got back home to Blakey, Georgia.
eGQb TIL the Triple Crown of Motorsports, defined as winning the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Monaco Grand Prix, has only been completed by one driver ever: Graham Hill.
78n0p TIL Samosas (fried, potato based triangular savoury South Asian snack) is banned in Somalia since 2011 due to Samosa's resemblance to the Christian trinity.
VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act
89WL TIL Russian Czar Alexander I, was so handsome, that Napoleon once remarked, “If he were a woman, I’d make him my mistress.”