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TIL The voice of the yellow peanut m&m is J K Simmons, the Farmers Insurance guy (and many other things)

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QDZa TiL Microsoft had originally approached Encyclopædia Britannica, but it declined, believing its print media sales would be hurt; however, the Benton Foundation was forced to sell Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. at below book value in 1996 when the print sales could no longer compete with Encarta .
xNBb TIL in 1934 King George V said in response to the growing power of the Nazi Party that Germany was now the peril of the world, and that should it carry on at its present rate, there was bound to be a war within 10 years.
e0YJn TIL that UPN bought "Malcolm In The Middle" before Fox. When they where shooting the pilot, UPN literally owned the show. At the last minute, UPN decided it wasn't a fit and passed on it. Fox picked it up instead. UPN folded in 2006.
yVWmw TIL that three of Jonas Savimbi's children sued Activision for the portrayal of their father in the popular game Black Ops II, citing that he was presented as a "big halfwit who wanted to kill everybody", but the lawsuit was rejected.
KyaB TIL Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the only professor at the University of Cincinatti that did not have a doctorate, although he earned his Master’s by giving a presentation on aspects of the Apollo 11 Mission