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TIL that in Yugoslavia during the 1950s and 60s, there was a craze for Mexican popular culture including films and music, leading to a cultural movement called YuMex.

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xjrb TIL that five-year-olds that have four or more servings of soda daily are 100% more aggressive than those five-year-olds that don’t drink any soda according to a study by Columbia University.
wolE1 TIL In 2017, a Scottish widower launched 2000 messages in bottles in an attempt to find love. He got 50 potential dates, and multiple angry responses from locals and environmental agencies.
d8vmE TIL Ed O'Neill has a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu.
GA5yg TIL about Stewart Smith who, over the course of 40 years, breed non-native fish in his garage and covertly released them from his car which was outfitted with oxygenated fish tanks into New Zealand’s north island waterways for sport fishing.
6E8Q8 TIL, the "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" monkeys actually have a fourth member of their posse — "Do No Evil" — who is commonly shown covering their genitals