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TIL Macaulay Culkin is the Godfather of Michael Jackson's kids

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RQy1 TIL that William Wrigley, Jr. sold soaps in 1891, offering baking powder as incentive to buyers. The baking powder proved to be more popular, so he started selling it, offering gum as incentive. But the gum proved to be EVEN more popular, so he started selling them. In 1893, Juicy Fruit debuted.
d8K1r TIL that during the filming of Rocky IV Sylvester Stallone was hit so hard by Dolph Lundgren, he spent 8 days within intensive care. The injuries he sustained are usually caused by steering wheel trauma to the chest in car accidents. Stallone said "in a sense I was hit by a 'streetcar named drago'"
grvZ4 TIL the longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and takes over three hours to pronounce. It's the chemical name for the largest known protein, often abbreviated as Titin.
rR90y TIL Tasmania's literacy rates are far below that of mainland Australia, with at least half of the state's population unable read or write properly. This is despite a higher teacher-to-student ratio than the rest of the country.
VMvZ8 TIL that there's a standard way of creating false color astronomical images called the Hubble Palette