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TIL in 2010, following slumped sales after the Financial Crisis of 2008, Gap decided to redesign their 20-year longstanding logo, costing an estimated $100M. The amount of public backlash was so great, that Gap took the decision to revert back to their old 1990 logo after less than one week.

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d8gv7 TIL In the 90s the NBA Supersonics owner demanded Adam Sandler to stop playing The Chanukah Song that mentioned the team's owner to be Jewish since at the moment of composing it there was another owner. Years later after the incident a Jewish man bought the team making the song accurate again.
neR1b TIL the oldest door in Britain is in Westminster Abbey. It was felled around 1032, constructed around 1050, and the only such Anglo Saxon period byexample.
wvyM TIL Simeon II, Tsar of Bulgaria during WW2, went on to be elected republican Prime Minister from 2001-2005. He is the only living person to be called Tsar.
JYkNj TIL in 2017 Emma Gibson was born 24 years after being concieved in-vitro. She was biologically one year younger than her 25-year-old mother. In 2020, the record was broken by her sister Molly, who was born 27 years after being conceived
XbpP TIL about thirteen-year-old Yoko Moriwaki the “Japanese Anne Frank,” who kept a diary about her life during WWII. She was killed by the atomic bomb in her home town of Hiroshima and her diary was later published by her brother.