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TIL Deja vu has an opposite, it’s called “Jamais vu”

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lmWB TIL Disney quietly cut ties with McDonalds in 2006 so as not to be associated with childhood obesity
nW4eP TIL Escaping slaves use to throw balls of fried cornmeal out to distract plantation hounds from tracking them. The hounds stopped barking and tracking thanks to the cornmeal which later adopted the name “hush puppies”.
ylEv TIL that in 1982, the arcade video game industry’s revenue in quarters was estimated at $8 billion(equivalent to $18.87 billion in 2012), more then the annual gross revenue of both music ($4 billion) and Hollywood films ($3 billion) combined that year.
v1Ogr TIL that the Olympic Rings (actually designed in 1912) were mistakingly thought to be an ancient Greek symbol, after researchers in the 1950s found a stone with the symbol carved on it in Delphi. The stone turned out to be a leftover from a ceremony held there for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
PJke TIL: In China, it’s illegal to use a wordplay or a pun in advertising or on television.