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TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.

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1JZO TIl Dave Thomas (creator of Wendy’s) once worked for Colonel Sanders (creator of KFC) and gave him the advice to: create signature KFc bucket, reduce number of items in menu, focus on a signature dish and have Colonel Sanders appear in adverts
epjR4 TIL coffee reduces blood flow to the brain
9D8G TIL that Timothy Dexter (1748 – 1806), an American businessman, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. When Dexter did not see his wife cry, he caned her for not grieving enough.
01jN TIL the “London Beer Flood” of 1814 spilled 323,000 imperial gallons of beer into the streets of London; killing eight people and destroying two homes.
6EG4l TIL Actor Kal Penn raised over $800,000 for charity in the name of a guy who commented that Kal ‘doesn’t belong in America’