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TIL an insurance company had to stop using their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance because she yielded too much fan made porn. When searching Esurance online, porn would come up first.

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v109x TIL that Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to win an Oscar (and whose birthday is today), was forced to sit separated from her white co-stars at the 1940 Academy Awards
k6am TIL that the U.S. government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance, defined as the most dangerous category. Cocaine and meth are placed in the less dangerous Schedule 2.
75KO TIL Charles Darwin was the first person to put wheels on an office chair, creating the modern office chair.
LkLDZ TIL In the first atomic bomb the core of beryllium and polonium was compressed to fifteen times less than is original size
DAgD TIL some words have no (or very uncommon) positive forms. Examples: disgruntled, incognito, feckless