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TIL that Pharrell Williams was in the Hollaback Girl Official video

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OopoX TIL Ordering and eating food in courses is called Russian service or Service a la Russe. As it was introduced to France in 1810 by the Russian ambassador. Prior to this 'French service' was the norm in most countries with all food being placed on the table and diners serving themselves
oBL08 TIL of a vaudeville group that tried to sue a pair of newspapers for libel, after the papers ran scathing reviews of their act in 1898. The judge ruled in favor of the newspaper after the group performed their act in court
o8mW TIL that Mel Blanc voiced all of the characters of Looney Tunes except for one–Elmer Fudd–though he eventually voiced that character, too
NVle TIL A Chinese farmer developed a way to make pears grow from the tree in the shape of little baby Buddhas.
jNwvR TIL that while modern child-proof lids were invented in 1967, archaeologists discovered a container nearly 20 years later that was opened using a similar twist-off method. The vessel was found in the Mayan ruins of Río Azul in Guatemala and dated back to 500 BCE. It contained chocolate.