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TIL Nike paid $35 to then student designer Carolyn Davidson for their iconic “Swoosh” logo

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mx4wY TIL that in 1989 around 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania held hands in peaceful protest against the Soviet Union, creating a chain of people that was 600 km long. Known as the Baltic Chain, it sparked demonstrations overseas and forced the USSR to acknowledge its crimes.
QjmE TIL of “The Three Boys”,who explored a small cave in Sweden using matches and planks every Sunday. After regularly exploring for two years, In 1948, a stone fell and opened a passage into a much larger cave system, the first hall after the passage was named “The Mountain King’s Hall”.
nm8G TIL that a man who had half of his body amputated after being run over by a truck opened his own bargain supermarket, called the Half Man-Half Price Store.
Dn8g TIL the FBI planted a fake terrorist in a mosque in California - the mosque called the FBI on the “terrorist” and got a restraining order against him
NgkN TIL that 36% of young (16-19), Japanese males consider themselves to be “Herbivore Men,” meaning that they have no desire to ever seek out a sexual relationship with a person of either gender. The trend has had a striking impact on the Japanese birth rate.