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TIL the TV show Mad Men sparked a 10% increase in breast implant surgery in the UK

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4X9Vw TIL in 1963 The Rolling Stones recorded a song just for the use in a Rice Krispies advertisement.
wokQJ TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who survived being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, lost his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
R5kgQ TIL: Paper Sons were the result of anti-immigration laws passed in the way 1900s to limit Chinese immigration into the US. Chinese people would fake birth certificates that showed they were children of people who had already immigrated (making them sons/daughters on paper).
npAb TIL the park visitor shown running while double fisting the margaritas in Jurassic World is actually Jimmy Buffett.
J1n9v TIL The Mosuo (a Chinese ethnic group) believe that long ago, dogs had life spans of 60 years and humans had life spans of 13 years, and humans traded their life span with the dogs in exchange for honouring them. During the adulthood initiation rites, adolescents pray before the family dogs