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TIL the Michelin Man’s ‘real’ name is Bibendum, and the reason he’s white is because he was created before carbon was added as a preservative and a strengthener to the basic rubber material. Before 1912, tyres were a gray-white or light and translucent-beige colour.

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dDZM7 TIL the Quantel Paintbox is a computer released in 1981 that revolutionized the production of television graphics. The initial list price was a quarter of a million dollars.
mG0O TIL In 1903, a large pocket of underground gas was found in Dexter, KS. In the hopes of economic prosperity, a celebration was planned. The burning of the gas was to “light the entire countryside for a day and a night,” but it just wouldn’t ignite… and Helium was discovered.
p8JEp TIL of the 'Flogsta Scream'. Every evening at 10pm students in the town of Uppsala, Sweden, let out a collective scream as a response to the stress of university life.
XJ6k TIL that in Clifton, New Jersey there is an old sewage tunnel system know to locals as The Gates of Hell. Urban legend has it that the drains go on for hundreds of feet underground, layered seven times just like the circles of hell.
DOKP TIL: Hitler was well aware of what his reputation would be after the war. Albert Speer recalls: “We were alone, silently watching twilight darken into night…Hitler says: ‘If I fail, I shall be the most despised man in history.’”