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TIL George Michael, the creator and singer of Wham!’s “Last Christmas”, died on Christmas Day in 2016.

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GYmlJ TIL there was a Wisconsin Civil War regiment made up of almost entirely Norwegian immigrants. Out of roughly 1000 men, 128 were named Ole, 75 had the last name Olsen, and 15 were named Ole Olsen.
DWnp TIL men pay 97% of alimony, make up 94% of work suicides, make up 93% of workplace fatalities, 79% of all suicides, 78% of all homicide, are over twice as victimized by strangers than women, 82% of the prison population is male and men are 165% more likely to be convicted than women.
G0YN TIL Donald Duck is so loved in Scandinavian countries that in Sweden they had to make him illegal to vote for in political elections. In 2005 in Norway ¼ of the total population read the Donald Duck Magazine, and “Donaldism” became a thing.
Yj9r TIL Bette Nesmith was a typist in the 1950s. She invented liquid paper because she was fed up with having to scrap a whole page due to a typo. Later she sold her company for over 40 millions.
N7opQ TIL about the Peter principle, where people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence"