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TIL Kirby was named after the Lawyer that saved Nintendo from a lawsuit against Universal Studios in 1984

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nx5W TIL that police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache
LQk9m TIL that Hugo Ferdinand Boss, the original founder of Hugo Boss, manufactured NSDAP, SS & Wehrmacht clothing in the early 1930s until end of WW2
v1nPL TIL that origami as we know it today was due to Akira Yoshizawa who, in his own estimation created more than 50,000 models of which only a few hundred were presented as diagrams in his 18 books; he lived in poverty from 1937 until 1954, when he published his first monograph and got his first exhibit
6BJl TIL Drew Carey was once a spokesperson for A&W Canada, but was dismissed after an episode of The Drew Carey Show featured him eating McDonald’s.
Q4V9 TIL Custer’s only strategy for the Battle of Little Bighorn (his ‘last stand’) was to kidnap women, children, elderly and disabled and use them as human shields.