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TIL that Febreze is actually odorless as it simply kills smells but people don't associate lack if smell with being clean. Once fake 'clean' scents were added to the formula, sales skyrocketed.

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jVpj TIL The American Red Cross spends 90.7% of its budget on Program Expenses (ie. the reason the charity exists) while others, like Shiloh International Ministries, spend as little as 3.8%.
XEJ8X TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
7rrlP TIL that the Marquis de Sade, from which we derive the term "sadism," actually played a part in inciting the French revolution: While a prisoner in the Bastille, he screamed from the window of his cell that prisoners were being murdered there. Ten days later, the Bastille was stormed.
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awD8b TIL screensavers were originally created as a way to prevent burn-in on old CRT screens, where if the image stayed the same for too long it would get burnt into the screen.