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TIL that Axe advertising was targeted to work on insecure males. The ads were so succesful that the brand eventually backpedaled, as the brand was being too closely associated with their target group.

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Owy1 TIL that an ’&’ between two writers for a movie (e.g. “Quentin Tarantino & Woody Allen”) means the writers worked together on the script as a team, while an ‘and’ (“Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen”) means they worked on the same script independently.
5VJVD TIL the Seinfeld episode The Implant popularised the term "double dipping", George gets in a fist-fight over the act
RkwQ TIL “Tittynope” is a word
W7GZ9 TIL The popsicle was invented by an 11 year-old boy when he accidentally left a cup of powdered soda mix with a stirring stick outside on a freezing night
kOa7B TIL in 1992, a retiree was out searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector. During his search he found a huge cache of Roman treasure, including 15,234 coins. The British government gave him and the owner of the land £1.75 million for finding it. Later on, he also found the hammer