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TIL in 1964, when Kia transitioned from making bicycles to cars, they changed their logo. The Kia logo, for 22 years, looked like an upsidedown "Q".

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jNbZQ TIL that the phrase “to blow smoke up your ass” was an actual medical practice used by indigenous North American people to stimulate respiration. It’s called a tobacco smoke enema.
WaW8 TIL Colonel Sanders was in a shootout with a local rival who killed a bystander. With his competitor convicted of murder, Sanders’ first restaurant lost its competition.
1apd TIL “Modern biologists have reaffirmed the role of sexual selection in the evolution of beards, concluding that there is evidence that a preponderance of females finds mates with beards more attractive than mates without beards.”
9wxp7 TIL Jägermeister campaign "TGGD - TrinkGeld Gehört Dazu / trans. Tip belongs to it" wants, that Germans get used to the concept that "tip everyone you pay" while clubbing or drinking at a pub/bar, this includes cab drivers as they bring you there, tip higher, tip every time.
Wkb7N TIL that Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan peace negotiator and women's rights activist suggested to the Taliban that they should also bring women to the table. They laughed immediately