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TIL Lobsters were once only fed to poor people and prisoners

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9w0vD TIL in 1980s Britain a particular ad campaign helped cure a slump in Levis sales, increasing demand such that supply became a problem
VO7B TIL that oxford dictionary inserted a fictitious word “Esquivalience” in order to protect copyright of the publication. The fake entry was included in dictionary.com.
KOADE TIL Casey Kasem was a devout vegan, supported animal rights and environmental causes, and was a critic of factory farming.He initially quit voicing Shaggy in the late 1990s,when asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, returning in 2002 after negotiating to have Shaggy become a vegetarian.
Y4oB TIL inventor Ray Kurzweil takes 150 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea every day and drinks several glasses of red wine a week in an effort to “reprogram” his biochemistry so that he might live longer
QNRm9 TIL Coca-Cola produces $3 billion worth of pure cocaine per year