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TIL: Smuckers couldn't patent their method for making Uncrustables, because they too closely resemble ravioli

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1aWVW TIL Guns and Roses guitarist Slash did not allow the TV show Glee to use any of Guns and Roses' music despite many attempts from producers. He stated “Glee is worse than Grease and Grease is bad enough.”
0wNPR TIL that a female rattlesnake had been isolated in captivity for 5 years before giving birth to offspring, indicating that she had stored the sperm from a mate for at least that many years.
ZpvZB TIL that one of Portugal's most important poets was a broke man who lived in Mozambique depending on friends for food.
J5pB TIL of Harvard Observatory astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt; given the boring job of examining the luminosity of stars in thousands of photos, she discovered how to measure the distance between the Earth and faraway galaxies. At the time, she was not allowed to operate Harvard’s telescope.
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