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TIL (realized) that Snoop Dogg got his name from Snoopy the dog

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lZL5 TIL Georgy Zhukov, Marshall of the Soviet Union, loved Coca-Cola but didn’t want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism. Through Harry S. Truman, he had a chemist make a colorless version that looked like vodka.
jyaa TIL There was a Smoking Lounge on the Hindenburg. “The smoking room was equipped with an electric lighter, similar to the kind of glowing coil that was once standard issue in automobiles”
J1PwQ Today I learned of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles (ramen noodles) and the creator of the brands Top Ramen and Cup Noodles.
e09vL TIL discussing sex became accepted in North Korea after Kim Jong-il’s visit to Mt. Chilbo in 1996. A guide showed Kim a rock which legend says depicts a couple having sex, and Kim enjoyed the story. After that, every time Kim visited new sites, guides created stories describing them in sexual terms
x6bE0 TIL that Lucasfilm hired YouTuber Shamook as their Senior Facial Capture Artist after Shamook dropped a deepfake video that went viral because many felt it improved the VFX used to de-age Mark Hamill in Season 2 of The Mandalorian.