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TIL a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes

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7DRP TIL the familiar ‘valentine’ logo at the beginning and ending of 'I Love Lucy’ wasn’t added until the show went into syndication. The show was originally sponsored by Philip Morris, and began with Lucy and Ricky dancing around a huge pack of cigarettes.
WR8N TIL an office started working naked(literally) for one month to see its effects on creativity [nsfw]
Mb50 TIL that night vision goggles are green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
N7wr8 TIL Toto -- the band who made "Africa" and "Rosanna", was the band that played the music for Michael Jackson's THRILLER (!)
WkEWX TIL that queen Elizabeth was a mechanic in ww2.