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0wZGM TIL in 1990 the grand marshal of the LA Gay Pride Parade was an 82 year old retired straight female professor. Her research in the 50s led to homosexuality no longer being considered a mental illness in the United States.
axLN TIL that a bowl of PF Chang’s hot and sour soup contains 7980mg of sodium. Nearly three and a half days worth of the recommended daily allowance.
GAom1 TIL: A study in 2009 randomly selecting people with beards, mustaches, and clean-shaven found that mustached individuals made 8.2% more money than the bearded and 4.3% more than cleanshaven. However, they spent 11% more money. The study was funded by the American Mustache Institute.
VBnLG TIL Abu Dhabi has a 75 year lease on all of the parking meters in Chicago. In a decade they’ve already made back their investment.
VMZ6B TIL when The Hollies released "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" in 1969, the song got up to #3 in the charts. However, after the song was used in a Miller Lite ad in 1988, it managed to reach the #1 spot and stay there for two weeks.