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TIL: You cannot hum while holding your nose. There, just made you try!

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ZEkB TIL that there is a small town outside Fort Worth, TX named White Settlement. In 2005, a record number of voters turned out to oppose changing the name to something less racist-sounding and then proceeded to call for the mayor’s resignation for even proposing the change.
Z8EGv TIL that 98% of adoptions in Japan are of 25-30 year old men
e0egE TIL Stan Lee was planning on changing careers when he was assigned to come up with a new superhero team. Since he had nothing to lose, he experimented with stories he preferred. This resulted in co-creating Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Avengers.
R5oOj TIL in 2014, a girl named Charlotte wrote a letter to Lego, expressing her concern about the lack of female Lego characters. In response, Lego released a new collection called the 'Research Institute', which featured female scientists. The collection was a huge success and sold out within a week.
GwEN TIL the wife of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay, Linda Lay, sold roughly 500,000 shares of Enron 10 to 30 minutes before news about the collapse of the company went public. She was never charged with any of the events related to Enron.