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TIL Soap bubbles are just a marketing trick to make you think some soaps clean better than others

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vQb4 TIL a San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. The company will sell rhino horns at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out
eBgD TIL that the president’s feces & urine are Classified Top Secret, and that it is flown back to the United States for disposal when visiting other countries.
1bo7 TIL Patrick Stewart, was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”. Roddenberry’s first choice was Stephen Macht
gMBb8 TIL of the 1937 Fox vault fire, in which 40,000 films were destroyed. 75% of all 20th Century Fox films from before 1930 were lost. There are actors for whom not a single copy of a single one of their films survive.
ne1Dr TIL that almost 1 of every 4 beds sold in the late Eighties was a Waterbed. Then the industry dried up in the Nineties.