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TIL that Zach Galifianakis was approached by Nike to be in their advertising after the success of The Hangover. During the conference call, he broke the ice by asking, “So, do you guys still have 7-year-olds making your stuff?”

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0dZ7M TIL In 1944, Helen Martini was hired as the Bronx Zoo's first female keeper after successfully raising 3 tiger cubs. She was famous for treating animals in her Bronx apartment-sometimes despite the complaints of neighbors-including gorillas, marmosets, baby deer, antelope, squirrels, and skunks.
OpoY TIL Johnny Depp once showed up at a school in full Jack Sparrow costume in response to a 9-year-old girl’s request for his help in staging a mutiny against the teachers.
86OL TIL Rosa Parks was not the first black person to be arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, and far from being a diminutive seamstress, Parks was a political organizer and activist, a member of the Montgomery Voters League and secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP
D18MV TIL the reason it's called "the birds and the bees" is because it's a metaphor for naturally-occuring events. The "bees" part comes from bees depositing the flowers (a reference to fertilization), and the "birds" part comes from female birds laying eggs (a reference to ovulation).
JEMQ TIL men have better spacial cognition than women and can put together IKEA furniture with or without the manual faster than women using the manual. Women’s performance suffered greatly without the manual, but men’s performance showed no major difference with or without the manual.