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TIL: The full quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste"

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dDVe9 TIL that Barq's Root Beer was first created by Edward Barq in Biloxi, Miss, in 1897. In 1934, Barq and a former employee, who moved to New Orleans, agreed to each distribute their own version of the root beer, with the New Orleans version having a red label and the Biloxi version having a blue one.
oBQb7 TIL Hanoi Hannah was a radio host for the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war. Hannah would broadcast exact locations of US Army units, and address soldiers directly, In attempt to denounce and frighten the US Military.
5wG9 TIL Spongebob Squarepants is 28 years old.
6Eg8Z TIL Richard Nixon had the Secret Service uniform redesigned to closely resemble that of European palace guards. The "toy soldier" uniforms were universally ridiculed and only used for a few months before being mothballed; after a decade in storage they were sold to an Iowa high school marching band
4k8Ja TIL Vanna White holds the title for “Televisions most frequent clapper”, clapping more than 600/episode and more than 3.7 MILLION a over her career!