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TIL English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys named their first album Please so people could go into record shops and say "Can I have the Pet Shop Boys album, please?"

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ADZea TIL that 3 years after illegally joining the Marines at the age of 14, Jack Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and threw himself on top of two grenades to protect his team. He survived, and is the youngest person to earn the Medal of Honor at 17.
KYE6 TIL a tradition exists in Denmark that a woman can propose on Leap Day, if denied, the man must compensate her with 12 pairs of gloves
4XZXw TIL In Ohio a shopping center was Built on a toxic landfill. The center opened in 2006 but by 2012 the majority of the tenants had abandoned the property. Tests show toxins continue to seep into the air and groundwater to this day.
PYEgE TIL there are no descendants left from the first Eskimos.. DNA is revealing that the 1st people in the Arctic did not leave any descendants in the New World.The 1st group in the Arctic lived in isolation for 4,000 years. It remains a mystery why they ultimately died off, they added.
nWoW TIL that, when the US was founded, the government could, and often did, unilaterally shut down corporations if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.