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TIL that there really is a Schraderbrau Beer - the beer Hank Schrader brewed in the TV series Breaking Bad. Actor Dean Norris helped launch it in 2019.

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dD40Z TIL Dr Stewart Adams OBE, who led the team at Boots the Chemists which discovered Ibuprofen, tested the drug on his own hangover.
6EXZW TIL Charles Shultz included Franklin, a black child, in his Peanuts comic strip at the height of the civil rights movement. He has since been accused of racism, but that is entirely incorrect. Shultz threatened to quit if his strips with Franklin weren’t run as is.
Oo01L TIL of Olivia Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre who became the first African-American woman to enter the U.S. Coast Guard in 1945.
oBMro TIL Paul and Linda McCartney used to take full-page advertisements showing John Lennon and Yoko Ono wearing clown costumes and wrapped up in a bag in order to mock them.
BbZe TIL the voice of How It’s Made, Mark Tewksbury, was an Olympic swimmer who won gold in the 1992 Olympic backstroke.