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TIL: San Pellegrino is naturally carbonated from the moment it comes out of the ground

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b6B7Q Today I learned Quentin Tarantino was an Elvis Impersonator on The Golden Girls and received $3,000 in royalties which helped fund his directing career.
m18jP TIL that multiple undetonated bombs have been found in Pompeii. As a result of Allied bombing during World War II, it is estimated that between seven and ten unexploded bombs remain in the unexcavated portions of the site. The last time one went off was over thirty years ago.
yN7V TIL that Coco Chanel, famed fashion designer and feminine icon, was a homophobe, an anti-Semite and a Nazi collaborator
QJXeL TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
rNnEW TIL about SN 1006, a supernova in the year 1006 CE that was described by observers on multiple continents, some 600 years before the first telescope. It was visible in the daytime sky for weeks, and the gamma rays it emitted created a sedimentary record on Earth. We have images of its remnants.