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TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first WWF persona was Rocky Maivia, a face (good guy). The audience rejected him due to his cheesy character, with chants of “Die, Rocky, die!”. After this, he became a heel (villain), referring to himself in the third person as “The Rock” and insulting the audience.

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LkBE9 TIL The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
woEdP TIL: In WW2, the Japanese developed Defoliation Bacilli Bombs to launch biological attacks on farmland, reservoirs, wells and populated areas using anthrax, plague fleas, typhoid, cholera, and the bubonic plague. Unit 731 created it, and became bioweapons researchers and were not prosecuted.
JNR8 TIL that–although he is better known for inventing the pressurized cabin and collapsible landing gear–Howard Hughes also invented and patented the push-up bra.
VMrk0 TIL that it takes only 8-minutes for sunlight to reach the Earth, but can take up to 170,000 years for it to travel from the Sun's core to its surface. This is because the photons travel in a nonlinear path known as a random walk process - looks pretty similar to a convoluted zig zag.
BgVgb TIL The Persians had ancient refrigerators called "yakhchals" to preserve the ice and keep it cold underground until the summer, the yakhchal also had a ventilation system that allowed the cold air to enter and the warm air to escape, keeping the temperature inside low.