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TIL That Elvis Presleys manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money from people who weren't buying Elvis merchandise

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D6LV TIL Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the most incest-friendly royal family in recorded history, and her first two husbands were her younger brothers
Zpaa4 TIL: About a company that is genetically engineering poplar trees (already fast-growing, asexually spreading trees) to reduce their energy needs by adding metabolic genes from pumpkins and algae. The engineered trees grow 1.5x than controls. They've planted 600 trees in Oregon and plan to do more.
9YxnG TIL that John Cena learned Mandarin for WWE expansion purposes, and really likes a brand of Chinese chili sauce
6E97w TIL that Heinz Heydrich, brother of SS General Reinhard Heydrich (one of the main architects of the Holocaust), helped Jews escape the Holocaust after reading his brother's SS and Gestapo files after Reinhard's assassination.
OvWX TIL that the word “hobbit” has been found exactly once in texts predating Tolkien, in a list of magical creatures with no explanation or context