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TIL that McDonald’s Grimace is supposed to be “the embodiment of a milkshake”.

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BrG5x TIL the famous Ralph Wiggum in danger meme is ironically not from a Simpsons episode but from a Family Guy crossover episode with the show.
7b8x TIL Finland was the first country in the world to offer a master’s degree in futures studies, and its government is required by law to produce an official review of the future every four years.
xVEN1 TIL: Men with older brothers are more likely to be gay. This birth-order related homosexuality has been linked to an increase in an anti-body found in their mothers who have previously had sons.
EwPP TIL when confronted by Steve Jobs about Windows using the same graphical interface as the Macintosh, Bill Gates responded by saying “I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
neJZW TIL that a Danish man saved over 6000 chinese people from the japanese army during the Nanking Massacre.