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TIL in 2008, Playboy ran a nationwide search for a "Girls of the Olive Garden" pictorial. The mag already featured shoots for “Girls of McDonalds," “Women of Wal-Mart” and “Women of Home Depot.”

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x641o TIL, the first Graecopithecus skeleton was found in 1944 by German soldiers digging a bunker. Graecopithecus were an ancestor of homo sapiens that lived about 7.2 million years ago. The bones were damaged by Allied bombing in the closing days of WWII.
gMK44 TIL In 2013, the state of Mississippi officially ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. Until that time, the state had not submitted the required documents for it to officially complete the ratification process.
OoJ4Y TIL Rock Your Body and other songs were originally given to Michael Jackson for his 2001 album Invincible, but he turned it down. The rejected songs ended up on Justin Timberlake's debut album.
kJl77 TIL South Koreans worked in the Kaesŏng Industrial Region, a special administrative region in North Korea, from 2004 to 2016
ayeo TIL of Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese unarmed military observer with the UN during the Rwandan Genocide. Alone and against orders, he used his UN vehicle to ferry hundreds of Tutsis and moderate Hutus to safety, bluffing, bribing and begging his way through checkpoints manned by génocidaires.