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TIL: Ash dieback will kill up to 90% of ash trees across the UK

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LQyrp TIL William Wrigley initially offered free baking powder as a gift for his soap but the powder turned out to be more popular. He switched to selling the powder and added sticks of gum as a gift. The gum became incredibly popular thus forcing him to switch and became the world's leading gum company.
W7yNd TIL the set for the 1989 movie "The Abyss" was constructed inside an abandoned nuclear power plant, modified to hold water. When filming wrapped, the set was just left there rather than deconstructed. It remained there until 2007 when it was finally demolished.
loNor TIL: "Cloudbusting" was a term coined by psychoanalyst wilhelm reich to describe manipulation of "orgone energy" to change the weather, through a specially designed machine. The term was later used as the subject and title of Katie Bush's single 1985 single, Cloudbusting.
woeWo TIL: a very unremarkable door in Quebec city is now a tourist hotspot because of an Asian TV show
eyw4 TIL The comic strip Beetle Bailey has ran since 1950 and is still made by its creator, Mort Walker, at age 91.