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TIL of an old brand of cigarettes named "Death". Slogans on the packaging included phrases such as "Let Us Be The Nail In Your Coffin", "The Grim Reaper Don't Come Cheaper", and "Cigarettes are addicting and debilitating. If you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, quit."

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J74m TIL that the B.I.G. portion of the name The Notorious B.I.G. stood for Business Instead of Game, and upon his death, Books Instead of Guns.
lLJ7 TIL Brendan Hufford, founder of kids martial arts company OK Kimonos, once held a clothing drive for poor children in Brazil that raised $3,000 and 100 uniforms. He didn’t donate any of the uniforms or money to the charity, but promoted his business as doing such.
XP5r TIL that many people experience the “broken escalator phenomenon”; when stepping on to an obviously broken escalator, these people step onto it inappropriately fast and experience dizziness and imbalance, despite knowing that the escalator is stationary.
9wxp7 TIL Jägermeister campaign "TGGD - TrinkGeld Gehört Dazu / trans. Tip belongs to it" wants, that Germans get used to the concept that "tip everyone you pay" while clubbing or drinking at a pub/bar, this includes cab drivers as they bring you there, tip higher, tip every time.
6EWM7 TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.