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TIL that Nicorette was created in Sweden for submariners who couldn’t smoke on board

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Z80o4 TIL the character ‘The Crimson Chin’ in Fairly Odd Parents was and still is voiced by Jay Leno
d8RYj TIL about one of the rarest plays in (American) football: The “Fair Catch Kick”. After a team calls a fair catch, they can opt to attempt a free kick from the spot of the catch to try for a field goal. Adapted from Rugby, only 24 recorded regular game attempts with 6 successes.
8DnV TIL the Energizer bunny was intended to be a parody of Duracell, which advertised using a pink bunny mascot as early as the 70s (15 years before Energizer). However, Energizer got the trademark first, and last year sued Duracell for selling their original pink bunny packaging in some US stores.
oRyN7 TIL paleobiologist Peter Vrsansky once discovered, in one single spot in Ecuador, "more than 150 cockroach species – more than those currently living in all of Europe"
woP1Y TIL Warren G Harding nicknamed his penis “JERRY”