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TIL “got milk?” ads were originally translated to Spanish as “are you lactating?”

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GAAVN TIL cup holders weren't built in cars until 1983
nWpmo TIL that a basketball player, Boban Janković, frustrated with his fifth foul, slammed his head into a padded concrete post, leaving him unable to walk for the rest of his life.
Lknov TIL author H.P. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from his earnings as an author. His book "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", written one year before his death, sold a meagre 200 copies. He died in poverty at age 46.
rNaPo TIL that West Virginia's split from Virginia was controversial. Instead of joining the civil war, citizens met to form WV. Legally a state split needs the consent of the existing government, but when the only representatives in D.C. were from WV, Lincoln decided they were Virginia's only government.
MeWlm TIL there is a theory that some of the Black Death was not bubonic plague, but a variant of a haemoratic fever. Those who survived may have passed this immunity through genetics which may account for the percentage of individuals who are immune to AIDS.