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TIL the first Hollywood male sex symbol was Japanese.

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rJBo TIL the 1913 Tour de France rules forbade outside assistance when riders’ bicycles broke.At one point,the race leader’s front fork broke and he trekked 10km to a forge where he repaired it himself,as he happened to also be a skilled mechanic.He was penalized 10 min because a child worked the bellows
Yp1Nd TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary wouldn't have been what it is today if not for an insane American Civil War surgeon who cut his penis off. He contributed thousands of quotations and word entries by writing from an asylum.
BrMky TIL that about seven in 10 wealthy families lose their fortune by the second generation and by the third generation, that number has jumped to 90 percent.
9YWlr TIL - That Parkinson's Law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization. Further, he defined a "coefficient of inefficiency" with the number of members as the main determining variable
jenN TIL that Cartman’s mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker’s cheating ex-fiancée, thus the jokes about her promiscuity.