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TIL that Francis Ford Coppola made more money making wine than he did making movies.

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ADoBx TIL that thread is measured in lengths called Lea (120 yds/110 m), Hank (a length of 7 leas) and Spyndle (14,400 yards/13,200 m), and Thread (54 inches/1.4 inches). Denier refers to the weight (in g) of 9000 m of thread. A single thread of silk 9000 m long weighs about a g, so it's 1 denier.
RPmw TIL that the commander of the first “Flamethrower unit” used in WW1 was named “Bernhard” and that before the war he was a firefighter.
KYMKJ TIL that from 1991 to 2007, tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. successfully marketed Capri Sun to children, based on their executives' experience selling tobacco to young people.
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xQDb TIL in 1958, the US Air Force made plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon and wanted it to visible by the naked eye on earth. They hoped it would boost American morale to counter the USSR’s advances in the space race. Project_A119