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TIL the phrase “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride” was popularized by Listerine in ads featuring a lovelorn woman unable to find a husband due to her halitosis. The same ad coined the term “halitosis.”

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X06g6 TIL of the origin of the phrase "drunker than Cooter Brown." Legend says that Cooter lived on the dividing line between north and south in the American Civil War. He didn't want to fight, so he stayed drunk all the time to make himself ineligible for military service.
5B0r TIL that if you live in the UK and buy a device from Apple that becomes defective within SIX years of the date of delivery. Apple by law must replace/repair/exchange the goods for free. This also applies to other maufacturers
ADLDa TIL Tomomasa Nakagawa, a former doctor sentenced to death in 2011 for his involvement in VX and sarin attacks, including the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway system, determined that Kim Jong Nam was attacked with VX before the announcement from Malaysian authorities.
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Bble TIL that Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule and Nobel prize laureate, sent a letter accompanied by a cheque for 10 guineas to Winston Churchill, saying that the money should be used for the establishment of a brothel at the Cambridge University, instead of a chapel.