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TIL Sheep smell different after they are sheered and do not recognize each other afterward

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Rdr7 TIL The first marketing pun was found in ancient Pompeii , found in a wine jar “bearing what is apparently the world’s earliest known marketing pun,Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum).
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v15y4 TIL Charlie Chaplin was one of the planned assassination targets during a May 15, 1932 coup attempt by Japanese naval officers. While the prime minister was killed at home, Chaplin survived as he was at a sumo event with the prime minister's son.
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