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TIL Neil Armstrong once sued his barber of 20 years after he sold his hair to a collector for $3,000

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1kN8 TIL, Tupperware has a lifetime guarantee in most countries, except India, where there is only one lifetime guarantee per incarnation.
g9gb TIL a “Chichevache” is a (fabled) human-faced cow that is perpetually starved because it only eats good and faithful wives. The Bicorne, its husband-eating counterpart is well-fed.
OR7L TIL of the mutation gynandromorphism. It is a mutation in which half an organism is male, and the other half is female. It is usually split vertically and is estimated to occur in 1 in 5000 birds.
4wXa TIL that after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 only the reactor No. 4 was nonoperational. The other 3 reactors continued to operate. Only in 2000 the last one was shut down.
7rBAr TIL The reason we never hear that "In a world" guy in the movie trailers anymore is because he died in 2008.