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TIL In 2014 a man set up a kickstarter to get ingredients to make his first ever potato salad and ended up receiving $53,000

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A98x TIL before Pixar made feature films, they made commercials for LifeSavers candy, Trident gum, and Pillsbury rolls.
BgxED TIL Sugar Ray (Fly, Every Morning, When It’s Over, etc) had a metal album before getting big in the 90s.
QJVLk TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest. It’s difficult for most insects and birds to fly at extremely high altitudes where the air is thin and oxygen is scarce but researchers were able to track some bumblebees that were able to fly at more than 9000 metres.
mx0rR TIL about mobster --"Handsome Johnny" Roselli, who infiltrated Hollywood in the 1920s. He rose up the ranks with Al Capone. He knew everybody,dated movie stars, played golf with studio heads and was buds with Marilyn Monroe. But in 1976 he was rubbed out by a Mafia hitman & stuffed into an oil drum.
BlnL TIL ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test where potentially pregnant women peed on barley and wheat seeds. Plant growth indicated pregnancy: Barley for boy; wheat for woman. Later tests show urine of pregnant women does cause plant growth 70% of the time, while urine of non-pregnant does not.