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TIL The Filling of Reese’s Pieces Is Not Peanut Butter

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4krno TIL that Paul Thomas Anderson filmed a late night informercial with Tom Cruise as Frank T.J Mackey from Magnolia promoting his "Seduce and Destroy System" from Magnolia (1999). Anderson bought time on late night TV to play it on and a lot of late night viewers called convinced it was a real product.
LQ6Qr TIL that a blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.
4695 TIL dogs are placed with cheetahs in captivity to help keep them calm.
YxNP TIL that the ‘fact’ that 50% of marriages end in divorce is the result of poor scholarship. In reality, only 30% of first marriages end in divorce and only 20% end in divorce if the partners are educated and over 25 when wed.
BrZQe TIL of the Service Recovery Paradox - If a customer has an issue with a company, and the company then remedy this, that person is more likely to rate that company highly than if there was no problem at all