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TIL that in 1995 Kermit the Frog launched an eau de toilette called Amphibia. It's slogan was: “Pour homme, femme, et frog.”

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6kj7 TIL that after George H.W. Bush, a Naval Aviator, was shot down and rescued by a submarine in WWII, he lived aboard that submarine for a month, assisting in the rescue of other aviators.
wl6J TIL Matt Damon and Ben Affleck inserted an oral sex scene between the two professors in Good Will Hunting to see which studio executives actually read the script. Harvey Weinstein liked the script, but hated that scene which showed Damon & Affleck he had actually read it so they gave him the rights.
woj77 TIL that the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's party ordered that pronouns referring to Him "had to be capitalized, like those referring to God".
nBLB TIL During the 1996 Vendee Globe, a solo round the world boat race, Pete Goss gave up his chance of winning and despite being 1400 miles from land turned 160 miles back into a storm in order to save the life of another competitor.
R091 TIL that during the Vietnam war, canine units were successful used to track down snipers. The trained dogs could determine the direction of the sound of the bullet, and would lie down with its head pointed at the origin of the gunshot.