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TIL Lay’s WOW chips caused anal leakage in some customers; and Lays were required to put Warnings on their labels because of this.

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EpRP TIL that Newman’s Own donates 100% of their profits to charity and when its founder Paul Newman was alive, he donated all of his income and royalty earnings.
vPpP4 TIL John Bonham’s iconic drum sound on the Led Zeppelin version of “When the Levee Breaks” was achieved by placing his drums in the stairwell of Headley Grange, a Victorian house in Hampshire, England. The echo created a massive, thundering sound.
rpee TIL Daniel Balsam is a US man who got so infuriated with constant email spam that he quit his job, got a law degree and has so far earned over 1 million USD in court judgements against the spammers.
N7de1 TIL the ancient Romans built statues of Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and almost conquered the city, in Rome itself to advertise their defeat of such a worthy adversary
vPjm7 TIL every year 481 billion plastic bottles are sold, more than enough to bury the Burj Khalifa!