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TIL that UGG footwear, despite formerly being known as UGG Australia, currently worn in the US are not actually Australian, and are basically copies of actual Australian UGG footwear.

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laEa TIL that Yoda was originally supposed to be portrayed by a monkey with a mask.
7onx TIL Coca Cola still uses coca leaves in its production and is the only company in the US allowed by the DEA to import the leaves. More than a quarter ton of cocaine is extracted from these leaves each year and sold to a St. Louis company for ‘medicinal’ uses.
pQGN TIL in 1825 the Baron of Renfrew, one of the largest wooden ships ever built, set sail from Anse du Fort, Quebec to London, England. Her mission, to be scrapped for wood on arrival in order to exploit a loophole in British lumber tariffs. She sunk 650 miles offshore.
1adpX TIL Physicist Brian Schmidt made a bet with his colleague Sean Carroll, betting that we wouldn’t know the value of the cosmological density parameter within 20 years. Brian lost the bet by figuring it out himself, which earned him a Nobel prize.
kejW TIL the US, working with Hanes and Levi’s, pressured the Haitian government to block a minimum wage increase. Haitian workers are the lowest-paid in the western hemisphere.