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TIL Lego almost went bankrupt in the 1990s but was saved in part by the unexpected success of Bionicle.

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l7J6N TIL McDonald's closed in Iceland, but the last burger and fries still linger on and are now in a glass encased shrine in a guest house in South Iceland. Twelve plus years later, neither appear to have decayed one bit.
0o6v TIL Dutch sex ed classes emphasize love, fun, and excitement, while US sex ed classes emphasize the mechanics and dangers
p8ODp TIL that Wilford Brimley isn't just a spokesman for diabetes. He is also a respected actor whose career spans for than half a century.
9Y9jX TIL of Georg Gaertner, a German prisoner of war who escaped from a POW camp in the U.S. in 1945. He started an entirely new life under a new identity, and did not reveal his past, even to his wife, for 40 years
MYXB TIL that long-term couples develop interconnected memory systems.