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TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today
jlDR
TIL there is an underground vault containing every Lego set ever
D1DMY
TIL That the Euro EUR (€) was introduced virtually in 1999 but physical notes and coins only entered the market in 2002. This gave me a heart attack after posting this video (Video is OC) [Video Source: Investing.com]
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TIL while the term "six-pack" is associated with images of beer nowadays, it was actually invented by Coca-Cola as a way to increase sales and get people to drink Coke more often
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TIL American women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) argued in her landmark essay 'On the Equality of the Sexes' in part by highlighting women's "talent for slander" to show women's power of "creative faculty"