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TIL that Axe advertising was targeted to work on insecure males. The ads were so succesful that the brand eventually backpedaled, as the brand was being too closely associated with their target group.

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r6M1 TIL that despite Orson Scott Card’s stance against fanfiction, he has written Bible, Isaac Asimov and Shakespeare fanfiction of his own.
KGn6 TIL one of the Congressional originators of the House Committee on Un-American Activities was a Soviet spy
6EvO8 TIL about Rumpology, a pseudoscientific method of learning about a person’s character and revealing their past and future by examining their buttocks. It is also sometimes referred to as asstrology
NXQj6 TIL about "topographical disorientation", the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings. Some people are affected from childhood despite a lack of any apparent brain damage, neurological condition, or cognitive defect.
GL7G TIL Tim Russ aka Star Treks Lt Tuvok was also the trooper in Spaceballs with the famous line “We aint found shit”