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TIL of Keggy the Keg. Dartmouth College’s unofficial mascot who is literally a beer keg.

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ojbY TIL Microsoft made a series of marketing blunders including CUNT (Critical Update Notification Tool), Bang (now bing) and spent $200M promoting the line “Prepare to Fly” just before 9/11.
GYLEg TIL of Francis E. Dec, one of the first widely known “targeted individuals”. A former lawyer, he spent the last 25 years of his life writing and distributing rants about a “mad deadly worldwide communist gangster computer god” that controlled people’s minds and planned to take over the world.
4Vwb TIL that judges in Britain are ordered to treat female criminals less harshly than male criminals
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Egdd0 TIL that Louis Vuitton once released a range of fitness gear: a $2,650 pair of 6.7lb (3kg) dumbbells, a $650 skipping rope, a $2,650 volleyball, and a $2,210 ping pong set.