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TIL in 2018 Nabisco freed its animal cracker mascots from their cages, changing a box design that was used since 1902.

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bON9 TIL that Chef Gordon Ramsay originally aspired to be a professional soccer player, but then suffered a knee injury that he never fully recovered from. He then decided to follow his already growing interest in culinary education so he wouldn’t be known as “the football player with the gammy knee”.
oB8m8 TIL of Jürgen Hinzpeter, a German journalist who risked his life to document the 1980 Gwanju Uprising in South Korea with the help of a Korean taxi driver. He spent the remainder of his life unable to reconnect with the driver as he had given him a fake name.
lo70N TIL in 2009, after deciding to switch from estimated to actual water meter readings, the city of Brockton billed a woman for a total of $100,000 covering 12 years of back charges.
Y1pd TIL In the UK, if you reach your 100th birthday, you get a personalized card from the Queen.
0wjG1 TIL James Franco once created an invisible sculpture called 'Fresh Air'. It was described as an endless supply of oxygen. Someone actually bought the 'sculpture' for $10,000