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TIL The FCC does not monitor for excessively loud commercials, but relies solely on consumer complaints.

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0danp TIL in 2007 Colgate was warned against using its advertising claim that "more than 80% of dentists recommend Colgate" in the UK. It implied 80% picked Colgate over its rivals, yet the dentists surveyed were able to name more than one brand & a rival was recommended almost as much as Colgate was.
VMEKZ TIL that Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted in 1995 that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" the next year, promising to eat his words if it did not. In 1997, he blended a printed copy of his prediction with some liquid and drank it.
4kM8g TIL about Lysander a Spartan military and political leader. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end.
wZJ6 TIL DMX’s current net worth is negative ten million dollars.
yQrMV TIL that a large part of eastern Washington State is mostly barren and useless for farming because all the soil got carried away by a series of ancient cataclysmic floods.