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TIL Play-Doh was a wallpaper-cleaner for 40 years until a kids started playing with it in the 1950s. The company rebranded it as a toy and has sold over 3 billion cans since.

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DQQgr TIL Roscoe Orman who played Gordon on Sesame Street 1974-2016 also played the pimp Willie in the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite
lopOK TIL in 2001 there was a You Don't Know Jack TV Show on ABC hosted by Paul Reubens. The show only lasted 6 episodes.
1amm7 TIL World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen trolls online chess games in his free time under the name “Dr Drunkenstein”
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