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

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78JEM TIL In Darabont's original vision for the end of The Shawshank Redemption, Red is seen riding a bus towards the Mexican border, leaving his fate ambiguous. Glotzer insisted on including the scene of Red and Andy reuniting in Zihuatanejo.
1axOr TIL: That spiders can regrow limbs assuming they have at least one molt cycle left in their life time. The limb starts smaller then its other limbs but can grow bigger, until normal size, after each molt. This can however come at a cost of the overall size of the spider.
kV7g TIL that in 2005 scientists created a 100% effective non-human Ebola Vaccine which could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011. However, it “sat on the shelf” due to the resistance of drug companies as poor countries couldn’t afford to pay and Ebola was “rare”.
MaA TIL a guy from the UK changed his name to Emperor Spiderman Gandalf Wolverine Skywalker Optimus Prime Goku Sonic Xavier Ryu Cloud Superman HeMan Batman Thrash
xPBk TIL In America, women are sentenced to less than half the jail time as men for the same crime.