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TIL Ben & Jerry's Has A Flavor Graveyard For Their Dearly De-Pinted Flavors

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oRVVW TIL that no football club won the French League during the 1992/93 season. After 1st place Marseille lost its title due to a bribery scandal, it was allotted to 2nd place PSG, but the owners of the club, TV chain Canal+, feared the reactions of their subscribers in Marseille and refused it
7rjZL TIL Jack Foley was so successful in the art of creating sounds for movies that he gave a name to the whole new profession: a foley artist. They specialize in creating sounds that are hard to record during filming.
kOv84 TIL According to the EPA, a smoke alarm in your house gives you about the same annual radiation dose as living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.
kWoE TIL that tea parties weren’t invented until the 1830s; which means the 1773 Boston Tea Party wasn’t known by that name until more than 60 years after the event. At the time it was referred to as “the destruction of the tea”.
5rYn TIL Bobby Farrell, writer of the hit “Rasputin”, died on the same date, in the same city as Rasputin.