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TIL in 1997, the American medical drama Chicago Hope featured a character named "Lisa Catera", which served as a promotion by Cadillac to promote their then-new Catera sedan ("Lease a Catera")

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0Ewj TIL the first solar cell developed had less than 1% conversion efficiency, and was denounced as a fraud by the USA for “generating power without consuming matter, violating the laws of physics.”
pYooN TIL there's a difference between button-down and a button-up shirts. A button-down shirt has small buttons on the collar to keep it in place, while a button-up shirt has no collar buttons. Button-down shirts are more casual (for example in the choice of fabric) and button-up shirts are more formal.
nWB4b TIL from 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3
Oob94 TIL Michael Vick was drafted in the 2000 MLB Draft by the Rockies despite not playing baseball since 8th grade.
v1Pjx TIL of Pando, one of the world's most massive living organisms, consisting of roughly 47.000 trees. Its age is estimated from 80.000 up to a million years.