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TIL Britons consume 97% of the worlds tinned baked beans

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rdjo TIL in 1917 journalist H.L. Mencken published a hoax news article stating bathtubs were popularized in the US by Pres. Millard Fillmore after he had one installed in the White House. Thirty years later, even after he admitted it was false, it was still being reprinted as fact.
9deM TIL that in tennis, winning two sets to love (IE, 6-0, 6-0) is called a “double bagel”
VM9RZ TIL the inventor of the bikini had to hire strippers to model it on the fashion runway because women used to recognize bikinis as underwear
0LyA TIL Francis Ford Coppola was so frustrated that studios wouldn’t let him make ‘Apocalypse Now’ that he threw his 5 Oscars out the window, mangling them. His mother got them replaced by the Academy by blaming the housemaid.
a9y TIL that Henry Ford was a Nazi anti-Semitic supporter and was the first foreigner to be decorated with Nazi Germany’s Grand Cross of the German Eagle.