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TIL Bill Melendez (Director of Peanuts Animations) and Hawley Pratt (Director of Pink Panther Cartoons) while worked at Disney, before the strike they were friends and developed their own Naval Game with Toy Ships.

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x6eZk TIL as recently as 2011, Dr Pepper ran an ad campaign with the slogan “Dr Pepper: IT’S NOT FOR WOMEN”. There was even a Facebook page that only men could access, where men would shoot at “girlie” things like flowers and rainbows.
9wDx6 TIL That there was a comic book hero named DareDevil that predates the Marvel hero by almost 25 years. He was originally mute after witnessing his father's murder, and fought villains like Hitler and a wolf with a human brain
P1N6J TIL that the Dallas Cowboys were the first team of any sport to hit $4 billion in franchise value, when they became the most valuable sports team internationally in 2015. The team has also won 5 out of 8 Super Bowls and holds the record for consecutive winning seasons with 20 seasons.
p86AZ A video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has resurfaced on Twitter. Though the account calls the method “Vedic multiplying,” its real origins aren’t clear—sometimes it’s Japanese, sometimes it’s Chinese, sometimes it’s called line or stick multiplication.
V6rB TIL that 14 years prior to Titanic tragedy, there was novel featuring the ‘biggest ship ever built’, an ocean liner called Titan, the “unsinkable”, which sinks after hitting an iceberg