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TIL the Quaker Oats company isn't Quaker and never was, they picked their name based on a religious stereotype about Quakers being honest in business

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JoG4 TIL that after Drew Barrymore posed nude in Playboy at age 19, her godfather, Steven Spielberg, sent her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that said “cover yourself up”. Enclosed were also the Playboy pictures, altered by his art department to make her appear fully clothed.
mxQaY TIL that CFO Magazine stopped giving out its annual Excellence Awards in 2001 because the three previous winners had all gone to prison
MeNvW TIL there isn’t a single reported case of a person dying from a Tarantula bite.
nWJBP TIL Edward Neumeier turned down a promotion to Vice-President at Universal Pictures so he could finish the RoboCop screenplay with Michael Miner
Wx4X TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.