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TIL Carol Burnett got her career started with the help of money from a stranger, who asked that he never be identified. (Not only has she never revealed his name, her benefactor also never told anyone else about his help, even after she became famous.)

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kO8we TIL in the 1990s, the Galapagos Conservancy launched Project Isabela, an all out war against 250,000 goats in the Galapagos Islands to save the dwindling population of Galapagos tortoises, and involved snipers picking goats off from helicopters. It ended up restoring the population of the tortoises.
5Y0Q TIL Walmart store openings since 1962 mimic the patterns of a biological invasion or an epidemic.
KYdeJ TIL that in the early 1900s, only 7% of Americans used toothpaste until Claude Hopkins marketing campaign to sell Pepsodent after which, the number of people who used toothpaste jumped up to 65%
OpoY TIL Johnny Depp once showed up at a school in full Jack Sparrow costume in response to a 9-year-old girl’s request for his help in staging a mutiny against the teachers.
8e9lK TIL that after DVD technology was developed, the first Hollywood feature-film chosen for release in that format was Twister (1996).