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TIL ‘Barbie’ was based on a sexy German doll 'Bild Lilli’ that was sold to adult men in bars and tobacco shops. Mattel eventually bought the Lilli rights.

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wAnE TIL via Ancestry, that my family was a part of a eugenics study, that claimed that my grandmother was the “mother of criminals” with over 100 prostitutes and 76 convicted criminals in the family line, the family was urged not to reproduce.
g49A TIL that serial killer Javed Iqbal was sentenced to death by being strangled in front of his victims family’s, dismembered and then burned in a vat of acid, in the same way he killed over 100 16 year old boys. He was found dead in his cell before the execution could be carried out.
9YOQQ TIL that the parents of Oscar Nunez (who played Oscar on the Office) were classmates of Fidel Castro at the University of Havana
n8DG TIL when the bees in a region of China disappeared, people pollinated apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers. When humans pollinated, apple production increased 30-40%.
KYlRJ TIL Simply Lemonade apparently doesn't have any vitamin C in their drinks