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TIL the reason milk is sold in bags throughout eastern Canada is linked to the countries transition to the metric system. Dairy producers, faced with having to replace and resize existing milk containers (measured in imperial quarts), found the use of bags to be a cheaper and quicker alternative

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LkmX9 TIL Babylonians believed that eclipses were the gods’ way of expressing anger, if the moon appeared in front of the sun, they would literally murder their king. In order to escape this, the king would crown a puppet king and queen days before the eclipse, and kill them instead.
5GbR TIL in 2004, a woman engaged to a video game programmer anonymously vented her frustrations about her fiancé’s brutal 85-hour work week in a single blog post which eventually led to three class action lawsuits and a $14.9M judgement against the company he worked for.
69pJZ TIL the Kung Fu honor code, rooted in Wude (“martial morality”), teaches respect, humility, perseverance, and integrity. True mastery is not just about skill, but living with discipline, compassion, and righteousness in and out of training.
jwYE TIL Warner Bros. kept George Clooney’s return to ER in the episode “Such Sweet Sorrow” a secret by submitting a version of the episode without him to NBC and at the last minute submitting an “Edited” version that included his cameo, without any time for NBC to screen it before it aired.
gMw94 TIL The huddle formation in American football was first used in the 1890s by quarterback Paul Hubbard,who was deaf. Hubbard was concerned the other team could interpret his hand signals, so he brought his teammates into a round formation to call plays.