Post * xNXw — Curious Curator

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TIL Snake Oil was a real product sold by the Clark Stanley company, and in 1917 the U.S. Govt. had a bottle of it tested, but discovered that it contained inert ingredients and no actual oils extracted from snakes. The government sued and won damages of $20.

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kpZ1 TIL Tesla Motors never spent any money on advertising. They put all their money into R+D, manufacturing and design to make the car as good as possible.

nevL7 TIL the film inside the SR-71’s camera was five inches wide and two miles long. Once a SR-71 returned, the photo-maintenance division removed the film and cut it into 500-foot long segments. Then they would put on surgical gloves and go up and down the lines, inspecting this massive roll of film.

JWok TIL: Every McIntosh apple is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s.

jAVE TIL George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and 'Animal Farm’ have together sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

vRw8 TIL, despite what AC/DC and The Wile E. Coyote may lead you to believe, TNT and Dynamite are entirely different.