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TIL that Colgate-Palmolive acquired Mennen, the manufacturer of Teen Spirit deodorant, for $670 Million in 1992; motivated by the popularity of Nirvana’s single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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9wV8X TIL that Subway spokesman Jared Fogle's charity, which was worth $187,000, got dissolved by the State of Indiana in 2012 for repeatedly failing to pay a $5 charity registration fee
jNw1E TIL Bill Murray hired an assistant who 'was profoundly deaf and spoke only in sign language' to make communication as difficult as possible between him, the director and the studio during the filming of 'Groundhog Day'
Vxym TIL 93% of Indians work in informal, off-the-books jobs, and get paid in cash.
9wpQQ TIL of Danette the cow that survived floating a 95km (59mi) journey down a river when she was washed out of her paddock during a flood
Qn69 TIL that two days before Hurricane Katrina struck, two Ohio tourists were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges. In the chaotic aftermath of the storm, they were jailed for more than a month in the city’s flooded jail