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TIL that the Clair Obscur franchise is tied for the second-most awarded game franchise of all time with nine awards, second only to Final Fantasy's ten

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DkXe TIL that Nestle earned the nickname “baby killer” in the mid 1970s after a bad marketing ploy killed many children in Africa.
l76RN TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.
jVdM TIL Eminem is a character in the Marvel universe
AnQw TIL that the English lyrics for the classic Christmas carol “Deck the Halls” were originally “fill the meadcup, drain the barrel” and not “don we now our gay apparel”.
EgQex TIL that there is a profession called neonatal bereavement photography and they use water immersion to take the photographs.