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TIL Dial soap at one point owned both Premier Cruises and Greyhound bus lines

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rRjNM TIL about a lightweight and low-cost “brick” that is made of recycled plastic and sand that is stronger than concrete material. It was created by an engineer in Kenya named Nzambi Matee
6K5W TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. Fourmonths and 3,000 installs later someone finally claimed that prize.
mBQE TIL of former California Arson Investigator John Orr, a serial arsonist who likely set over 2000 fires over a ten year period.
jNl9Q TIL that kids used to sleep in the freezing cold in Soviet kindergartens. Surprisingly, that was a common practice in the USSR. We can find numerous photos showing kids sleeping outside – in winter, as well as in summer.
leJ5 TIL the Ancient Babylonians took their beer so seriously, if a brewer was found to be watering down his beer, he’d either be drowned in the barrel or forced to keep drinking it till he died