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TIL Hugh Hefner has gone nearly deaf in recent years, which may be caused by the Viagra he uses. But he still says he would rather have sex than have his hearing

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JYxn1 TIL McDonald's trademarked McJobs in 1984 as training for handicapped people. Now, they protest or threaten legal action for dictionaries who've defined it as a dead-end job. They even tried to get their workers to petition those dictionaries, but workers refused and agreed with current definitions.
kOaNe TIL Korean women look for holes, locally known as Molka, in public (or private) restrooms and cover them with toilet paper since those holes usually contain spycams that record them.
XoaP TIL a person infected with toxoplasmosis is more than twice as likely to be in a car accident—attributed to the parasite’s tendency to reduce reaction time—and has a higher than normal risk of schizophrenia and suicide
69mQX TIL that despite the common myth that the F-14 had the world's first airborne digital microprocessor, it may have been General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark., starting with the FB-111, then later the F-111D. Therefore beating the F-14 by several years.
vPLr4 TIL about Pauly Shore’s Golden Raspberry (Razzie) legacy which includes: Worst New Star for Encino Man, Worst Actor for Bio-Dome, and Worst New Star of the Decade for the 1990s. He was even nominated for Worst Actor of the Century but lost to Sylvester Stallone.