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TIL that before Salman Rushdie became an author, he came up with the slogan "Naughty, but nice" for British cream cake adverts.

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gMnKD TIL the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs created a line of freshwater caves. The Mayan culture was able to rise in the normally freshwater-poor Yucatan directly as a result of that meteor.
Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.
gMgR8 TIL the last words of Roman Statesman Cicero were "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly." as he was assassinated
Wwr4 TIL Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave - and then escaping in the guards uniform.
dVE TIL Christmas is often spelled Xmas because the Greek letter Chi (χ) is used to abbreviate the name Christ.