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TIL Billy Mays would only sell products that passed his test, that worked and that he himself used at home.

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6QYZ TIL the oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.
1KRW TIL for the movie Labyrinth (1986), Jim Henson wanted Sting to play Jareth, the Goblin King. However, he changed his mind after his kids convinced him that David Bowie would have “lasting appeal”.
BgWmd TIL the museum considered to have been the first museum in world history was founded in Ur circa 530 BC. Known as Ennigaldi's museum (named after Ennigaldi, a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire), it showcased cataloged and labelled artifacts from the preceding 1,500 years of Mesopotamian history.
8d64 TIL Women used to wear foot long pins in their hats which could be used in self defense to stab men who groped or assaulted them.
PYk1e Til: A Minecraft realm named "The Uncensored Library" catalogues banned journalism worldwide in order to fight government censorship as the game is unbanned worldwide.