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TIL every Rubik’s Cube can be solved within 20 moves.
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TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."
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TIL that in 1933, Dr. W. Franklin Dove, a biologist, created a “unicorn bull.” It became leader of the herd, but was also “unusually gentle and mild mannered.”
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TIL that the Bible is not only the best selling book of all time, but it is also the most shoplifted one.
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TIL After 9/11 the Clear Channel memorandum listed “lyrically questionable” songs that shouldn’t be played on the radio. The only band to have all of their songs on the list was Rage Against the Machine.
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TIL: for years Chrysler advertised their luxury cars as containing 'Corinthian leather' with Ricardo Montalbán as the spokesman. On Late Night with David Letterman Montalbán playfully admitted that the term meant nothing. The leather was actually sourced from New Jersey.