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TIL Half of Consumers in America Don’t Trust Advertising

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Yy4Z TIL an 84 Year Old Refused a Million Dollar Offer, Forced Shopping Mall To Build Around Her House Instead
16OxW TIL that the two candidates in the 1886 Tennessee Gubernatorial Election were brothers. The two campaigned alongside each other, spending the first half of each campaign stop engaging in political banter and telling stories and the second half playing fiddle tunes while the crowd danced.
b9PW7 TIL that getting 3 strikes in a row in belong is called a “turkey”.
rkRM TIL translations of the first “Austin Powers” maintain Alotta Fagina’s suggestive name, but differently; in Finnish her name means “always horny,” Polish has her as “wavy vagina,” and Canadian French makes her “happy clitoris.”
pYyJG TIL that Garry Shandling was offered his own late night chat show in 1992 but turned it down in order to create a sitcom about a fictionalized version of himself who did take the offer