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TIL: GB Glace (Unilever's heart ice cream company) has a different name in many different countries.

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BWvW TIL: in 1955, someone dropped a >600 year old plaster buddha statue… to discover the plaster was actually covering a solid gold statue.
x6B0B TIL the word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "forced labor," and was first used in a 1920 play where robots rebelled against humans.
R7Mol TIL LBJ had an amphibious car on his Texas ranch. He would drive new visitors around in it, then pretend the brakes had gone out and drive into a pond.
e04M5 TIL that the restaurant chain Red Lobster once lost over $3 million during an "endless crab" promotion because an executive underestimated how much people could eat.
YlJG TIL that between 1996 and 2001, Afghanistan had no national anthem because the taliban had banned music altogether.