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TIL that Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" almost went to a hemorrhoid commercial.

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kOoR4 TIL that in the 1980's, A&W tried to compete with the McDonald's Quarter Pounder by selling a 1/3 burger at a lower cost. The product failed, because most customers thought 1/4 pound was bigger.
ObZL TIL that according to the Inflation theory, our unobservable universe may be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the already mind-bogglingly massive observable universe.
9KXQ TIL: In Wales in 1950 a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter. It is the reason capital punishment is outlawed in the UK today
ADKYo TIL in 1987 director John Landis was acquitted on 3 counts of involuntary manslaughter after actor Vic Morrow and two children aged 6 and 7 were decapitated on the set of The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.
yVjXX TIL the real reason Steve left Blues' Clues was because he was suffering from depression