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TIL that Coelacanths were thought to be extinct since the cretaceous period, yet they were discovered alive in 1938

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EgemV TIL Robert Taylor popularized hand soap from a pump when his company introduced Softsoap in 1978. To forestall competition from larger companies, he ordered 100 million pumps from the only existing US manufacturers. The $12 million buy prevented the giants from matching his product for over a year.
xVlJ5 TIL the people around Siberia's Lake Baikal have a system for extracting submerged vehicles that have fallen through the ice, without using heavy machinery.
OoW54 TIL For almost 50 consecutive years (1970 until 2017), Jackie Chan did at least one movie per year.
o44o TIL that in 1964, a parent wrote to the US Attorney General complaining that the lyrics to “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen were obscene. After 2 years of investigation, the FBI dissmissed the complaint because the lyrics of that recording were “unintelligible at any speed”.
v1EZr TIL Tom and Jerry have won seven Academy Awards