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TIL 'Monkey', a puppet character in Britain. It's a rare mascot that outlived the product (digital TV) it promoted, and reused for totally different product (tea).

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neA59 TIL about ripening caching, where animals will hoard initially inedible food items with the intention of ripening it. Tayras, a type of Central American weasel, have been observed hiding whole green plantains which they come back to eat once ripened.
wAKM TIL German footballer Mesut Özil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil
JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
4oO6 TIL that during Clinton’s presidency, then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan forced Clinton to reduce the deficit by threatening interest rate hikes. Greenspan later wrote in his book about how he singlehandedly put a stop to Clinton’s progressive policies.
WBR8 TIL A man in Canada smuggles Trader Joe’s branded groceries from the US to sell in his store “Pirate Joes” in Canada.