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TIL an advertising agency in New Zealand installed branded plates on benches so people wearing shorts would inadvertently advertise by leaving an impression of an ad on the back of their thigh.

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Xy5r TIL the Empire State Building generates more revenue from the observation deck than all the commercial tenants in the remaining 101 floors combined.
ZpyX4 TIL Lady Gaga secretly swapped in "Fuck her face" for "Poker Face" during the chorus of the song with the same name. She later admitted that only Kiss FM in Los Angeles noticed the change and the song was played with the NSFW lyrics across the globe.
6E4lW TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.
v1BlD TIL: The red flag, when used by pirates, came to mean "no quarter given", meaning that no mercy would be shown, and no life would be spared, while a black flag usually meant that those who surrendered without a fight would be allowed to live.
4d6b TIL on 1st of June 2001 the heir to the Nepalese throne - Prince Dipendra shot and killed several members of the royal family (while intoxicated) including his parents - the reigning King and Queen. This eventually lead to the abolishment of the Kingdom of Nepal.