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TIL: Between 1975 and 2008, the number of products in the average supermarket swelled from an average of 8,948 to almost 47,000

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rNded TIL in the mid-60s, Canadian composer Galt MacDermot, who was then a 38 year old father of four, was offered to compose the music for the hippie-rock musical “Hair”. Galt admitted that he had no clue what a hippie even was, but was “enthusiastic to do a rock-and-roll show.”
x6Ejg TIL that 'Eyebrows on dogs' is an evolutionary result of their domestication by Humans intended to assist with their communications
rROVx TIL Behind Lincoln's head on Mount Rushmore there's a Hall of Records with 16 porcelain plates describing the U.S.'s history. They're kept in a teak box inside a titanium vault.
R5d0w TIL "Super Dave Osborne" is the real-life brother of comedian Albert Brooks
4ZbX TIL Freddie Mercury released a solo album in 1985 that was dedicated “to my cat Jerry—also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe—screw everybody else”