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TIL Dominoes discontinued use of their mascot “The Noid” after a mentally ill Kenneth Lamar Noid, thinking the character was based on him, held a Dominoes hostage and later killed himself.

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PL1G TIL there was a woman named Edith Macefeild who would not sell her house to make way for a commercial development project in Seattle. When she died, she willed the house to the leader of the construction project “in gratitude for the friendship he had shown her during the construction.”
p15p TIL: Trading Places’ Was Originally Written for Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
JY8WV Great Red Spot’s days are numbered and it’s possible that it could be entirely gone within our lifetimes.
l76GV TIL that in the Victorian era, women wore crotchless panties and urinated in gravy boat-like vessels called “bourdalous”
PrQw TIL Egypt is quantitatively the most rectangle country.