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TIL When Nelson Mandela met Spice Girls in 1997 he described the moment as “One of the greatest moments of my life”.

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M7K90 TIL that A. A. Milne stopped writing Winnie the Pooh books partially because he was worried about the fame it brought his son, Christopher Robin Milne. They later became estranged because his son resented the books and the fame they brought him.
1nmP TIL Bug zappers fell out of common use because for every 10,000 bugs it killed, only eight were found to be mosquitoes.
mDXx TIL that Cartman’s revenge plot in “Scott Tenorman Must Die” was based on a similar scheme used in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, where both protagonists feed their enemy the remains of their relatives.
G9Xj TIL that TV commercials haven’t necessarily gotten quieter since the CALM Act (the TV commercial volume control law) went into effect last December, because it relies mostly on consumer complaints to the FCC to enforce the law. Link to submit those complaints included.
N7QGN TIL Forty of the world's fifty tallest mountain peaks are in Pakistan.