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TIL Dolly Parton entered a lookalike contest and lost!

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oyE8 TIL Pet Rock was so popular in the 70’s that the creator became a multimillionaire about 6 months after marketing it.
x6vRB TIL the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind.
epjg6 TIL That some countries held periods of mourning and offered official condolences over the death of Hitler!
WkKXA TIL in the early 1890s one man released 100 European Starlings in New York City, which have grown to 200 million today as an invasive pest. The story goes he wished for all birds mentioned in Shakespeare's works to reside in America.
PYRjn TIL Obsidian was denied a bonus from completion of Fallout New Vegas because the game scored an 84 on Metacritic (one point under the contractual 85)