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TIL Attorneys from Coors brewery were appointed by Reagan to the EPA after campaign donations by Joseph Coors. The EPA then lifted restrictions on the dumping of toxic waste in Colorado, home of the Coors brewery.

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QGYX TIL that the font Comic Sans was created for the speech bubble of Bob The Dog for Windows 95. Bill Gates originally wanted it to be in Times Roman but font engineer Vincent Connare said “we can do better than that" and created Comic Sans
16MpP TIL the movie 'Cape Fear' was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, but he eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Martin Scorsese in exchange for 'Schindler's List', which Scorsese had decided not to make.
grw6D TIL the USA is the only nation on earth where there are more guns than people
grMpA TIL Spitfire planes were "crowdfunded" in some cases in World War II. Large scale contributors were allowed to give the plane a nickname which was printed on the side. For example, ‘Dorothy of Great Britain and Empire’ was named by a group of women, all with the name 'Dorothy'.
LQAyQ TIL that 'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) by Charles Dickens is the most sold non-holy individual book of all time