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TIL that Chuck Taylor All-Stars have been around for over 100 years

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Z6Y4 TIL that the popular candy coated chocolate known as Smarties in the rest of the world, is not sold in the United states. Instead, in the States, the smarties name rights is owned by the Smarties Candy Company, producers of the tablet candy “Smarties” (a.k.a. Rockets).
oro TIL of a seeing-eye goose that leads around a blind dog.
WdeL TIL Leonard Nimoy fought to get pay equity for Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek in the 1960s
rkmw TIL Luigi Chinetti won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1949 by racing over 23 hours of the race by himself, only letting his co-driver behind the wheel for 20 minutes
BRwW TIL that the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” is about Mary Tudor, and that the “silver bells and cockle shells” are allusions to instruments of torture.