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TIL a moustache is a beard

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WkjML TIL the original Jake from State Farm was an actual State Farm employee; new one is an actor
4XGya TIL German Unity Day was almost Nov. 9, the day the Wall fell. However, that day was also the day of kristallnacht so they went with Oct. 3, the day of the actual unification.
d8W5Z TIL: Trey Parker had to deliberately sing off key to get auto-tune to work, saying "If you use it and you sing into it correctly, it doesn't do anything to your voice."
R167 TIL that in 1954, Royal Crown was the first company to sell soft drinks in a can, and later the first company to sell a soft drink in an aluminum can.
GYDlG TIL of Charles Bliss, who invented Blissymbols- a universal written language. It was a total flop, until in 1965 he discovered it was being used to communicate with kids with cerebral palsy. He promptly sued the small organization using it because they had made changes to aid in communication.