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TIL aluminum Christmas trees were popular in the 50’s and early 60’s; when the Charlie Brown Christmas special aired, sales dropped dramatically to the point where they were taken out of the market.

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4kR95 TIL that famed scientist George Washington Carver had a respiratory infection in his youth which him with an unusually high pitched voice that “startled all who met him.”
Jy7V TIL in 2005, MySpace was in talks to buy Facebook, but rejected Mark Zuckerberg’s asking price of $75 million as too expensive.
apkL TIL that Olivia Wilde’’s actual name is Olivia Cockburn. She changed her name professionally to make it sound pleasant, and chose ‘Wilde’ as a tribute to Oscar Wilde.
Wed TIL the opposite of “Ambidextrous” is “Ambisinister”: Literally ‘having two left hands’
yVAWl TIL the only survivor of a mid-air collision between 2 planes over Amur Oblast (that killed her husband & 36 others) fell 5,220 meters while holding onto a piece of the plane. After waiting 2 days in the woods with fractures to her arms, ribs & spine, she began to walk on the 3rd & found rescuers.