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TIL Olive Oyl was a main character for 10 years before Popeye's 1929 appearance.

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kJpKW TIL: Tom Selleck was accused of stealing ove One Million gallons of water for 63-acre California avocado farm in 2015. Selleck and his wife eventually agreed to pay a settlement to the sum of more than $21,000.
VBRk0 TIL the 1970s rock band Bay City Rollers, known for the pop hit "Saturday Night", was a Scottish band that wanted an American name, so they brainstormed by throwing darts at a US map. They declined Arkansas from the first dart, but the second dart landed on Bay City, Michigan.
LQp5r TIL that on IMDb the rating for 'This is Spinal Tap' goes up to 11
4P1N TIL in 2012 a 9-year-old boy decided he wanted to help the families of fallen US soldiers. He started a Facebook page and ‘traded up’ his toy soldier into $900 worth of Disney World gift certificates. He then gave the dream holiday to a 2 year-old girl who had lost her father in Afghanistan.
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi