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TIL that the lead singer of “The Village People” was actually straight.

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0kov TIL that a billboard can create 100 liters of water a day out of thin air!
1aOAX TIL Benny Medina created The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air after growing up poor in East LA. His life changed when he befriended a rich white teenager, whose family lived in Beverly Hills and allowed Medina to live with them. Medina decided to change the rich white family to a rich black family.
l7K17 TIL: A 2020 study revealed that one's taste is connected with their ethnicity and gender. Asians experience taste more intensely due to being more likely to be "supertasters" having the compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) and being thermal tasters. Caucasians are much less sensitive in comparison.
9wPrQ TIL that the first general release film to have a post-credits scene was “The Silencers” (1966). In the scene, Dean Martin’s character “Matt Helm” was lying shirtless on a rotating sofa along with 10 half-clothed women. He then kisses two women before rubbing his face and muttering, “Oh my god.”
x6JXk TIL Yiannis Kouros won the 1988 Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon (537 mi, 864 km) even though he started 12 hours behind the rest of the field after the organizers of the race challenged him to do so. In total, he won 5 of the 9 times the event was held.