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TIL that 85% of bikinis sold never touch the water

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7OMb TIL that after Disney released “Princess and the Frog”, over 50 children were hospitalized with salmonella from kissing frogs.
nlN9 TIL in 1944 by a huge coincidence ,a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation “code names”, which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.
e0676 TIL that George Orwell had trouble getting Animal Farm published due to Soviet-British relations during WW2. Once, a publisher agreed to release the novella but later reneged after warning from an officer at the British Ministry of Information. The officer was soon discovered to be a Soviet spy.
oRvoo TIL A report about American fast food consumption concludes people actually eat more fast food as their income levels go up
m1j4E TIL John Rhys-Davies' stunt double in the Lord of the Rings movies, Brett Beattie, got co-credit as Gimli due to playing him in so many scenes but had the credit removed a week later because of “concerns about preserving the illusion that is Gimli"