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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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BrYAL TIL about Dolbear's Law which is a formula for using crickets as a thermometer
RPpQ TIL Thomas Jefferson is credited by the OED as the first person in history to use the word “Shag”, to mean “to have sex with”
7rBJb TIL The US census bureau used to use “insane and idiots” and a demographic category
grA7A TIL that Henri, Count of Chambord, was offered the French throne in 1870. He refused it when the French National Assembly would not meet his demand that they change the flag, leading Pope Pius IX to remark, "All that for a napkin!"
AD57l TIL just how massive and well coordinated the opening air attack on Iraq was in Desert Storm. Multiple countries were involved, multiple types of different aircraft were used, and hundreds of aircraft in the air all at the same time, it was an incredible effort.