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TIL Sears created Allstate and The Discover Card!
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TIL Dave Grohl played every instrument and sang every vocal on the Foo Fighters’ first album. The only reason he put the band together was so he could tour.
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TIL Kanye West moved to China with his mother when he was 10 years old and learned to speak Mandarin, although he has since forgotten most of what he learnt.
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TIL the discoverer of the coelacanth, naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, had to fight with the taxi driver, the museum curator, the morgue director (it was summer), and the cold storage supervisor. Then the taxidermist botched the job, and the photo film fell into the mud and got destroyed.
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TIL: Lemmy was offered a reality show, but he turned it down claiming he just its around by himself playing videogames, and no one would want to watch that.
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TIL that in South Korea babies are considered 1 year old from the day they were born and then get 1 year older on New Year’s Day. There are calculators to convert international age into Korean age and vice versa.