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TIL that Soap Operas got their name from radio dramas which were sponsored by soap manufacturers.

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oRRAL TIL of Lysistrata, an Ancient Greek Comedy where the women withheld sex to end a war.
4VXX TIL the third leading cause of death in America is “preventable harm” - hospitals making mistakes. Only cancer and heart disease kill more.
9Yl0B TIL that in 1931, a scientist tried to teach a baby chimpanzee human behavior by raising it alongside his human son. The chimpanzee never acquired language skills and the experiment was called off when the human baby began imitating the chimpanzee's vocalizations.
lonyG TIL that those "baby on board" signs hanging in car windows serve a purpose of alerting first responders that there is a person in the vehicle that's unable to unbuckle themselves in the event of an accident
X0o9P TIL a 1990s April Fools prank at Microsoft nearly got the pranksters fired when they printed up hundreds of fake product boxes and snuck them into software stores -- Microsoft Coffee