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TIL an alt-rock station in Chicago played a song by a “mystery artist,” and it quickly became one of their most requested tunes. The station revealed, after heavy rotation for three weeks, that the song was “The Great Divide” by Hanson….yeah, that Hanson.

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Z1yD TIL It took Burger King seven years to realize people found its creepy, plastic-faced King mascot unappetizing. The royal representative has starred in the fast-food company’s commercials since 2004, doing things like stalking people outside their homes and scaring young women.
80JK TIL that in Canada, there are currently NO shelters for male victims of violence or sexual abuse and that Earl Silverman, the previous owner and manager of the country’s only male shelter, committed suicide when he was forced to sell his house and shelter due to lack of funding.
jdXv TIL that West African countries supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa market, using child labor, and in some cases slavery , to supply international giants such as Hershey’s, Mars and Nestlé .
OGadL TIL in "A Sunday on La Grande" (pointillism picnic painting), the monkey symbolizes lust and the woman fishing is a pun for prostitute.
nnM9 TIL the plot of the pilot episode of the show “The Lone Gunmen”, a spinoff of the X-Files, featured 3 conspiracy theorists thwarting a secret government plot to fly a plane into the World Trade Center and blame it on foreign interests in order to boost defense spending, it aired march 2001.