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TIL that "Dora the Explorer" is a pun on the Spanish word for explorer: "exploradora"

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Z80eY TIL The last King of Afghanistan modernized his country, and his reign was marked by peace and stability. He was overthrown in 1973 but returned to Afghanistan at the end of Taliban rule in 2002 where he was titled "Father of the Nation"
ym5p TIL in 1984 McDonald’s ran a promotion where customers scratched off a ticket with the name of an Olympic event on it, and if the U.S. won that event then they would be given a free menu item. The promotion became a near financial disaster due to the Soviet boycott.
9gDX TIL Quake III Arena, needing to calculate x^(-½) quickly, used a piece of code so strange, the developers commented the code with “evil floating point bit level hacking” and “what the fuck?”
MVnb TIL that in 1920’s the Hollywood-sign was lit by thousands of light bulbs and the guy who changed the burnt ones, lived in a little cabin near the sign.
DQXee TIL that Dellview, North Carolina is the smallest town in the state of North Carolina with only six people. It is so small that the town is considered inactive and almost all residents are related.