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TIL Nike makes a carpet underlayment pad made from manufacturing scrap that sells exclusively at Home Depot.

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E1jJw TIL Dr. Seuss attended Oxford but never received a degree from there as he met his future wife, Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to drop out. Helen would commit suicide leaving Dr. Seuss without any children which is where he famously said "You have 'em, I'll entertain 'em".
grrX9 TIL Aeschylus, one of the greatest tragedians of ancient Greece, regarded as the father of the genre itself, died after a bird dropped a tortoise on his head, thinking it was a rock to break it open.
loBm1 TIL The Indian village of Meghalaya, the wettest place on Earth, has trained branches of rubber trees to create natural bridges over rainy valleys.
oWLo TIL that Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) wrote Chris Farley’s sketch “In a Van Down by the River”
QxdL TIL In 2005, an inexperienced trader at a Japanese bank tried to sell 1 share of J-Com stock for ¥640,000. He accidentally sold 640,000 shares for ¥1 each; the equivalent of selling $3bil worth of shares for the price of $5,000.