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TIL: It would take more than two years to watch all episodes of the guiding light.

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D1MXr TIL that Betty Crocker was never a real person. She was created for a Gold Medal Flour ad in 1921. Shortly after the company decided to use the character to answer all the baking and cooking questions received by mail, as a woman was a more trusted source of baking information than an all male staff
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rRplo TIL Orwell's 1984 title likely came from a poem his wife Eileen wrote in HS called End of the Century, 1984