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78axr TIL that the mascot of the city of Hidalgo, TX is a 10-foot high, 24-foot-long killer bee statue. It was erected in 1992 to commemorate Hidalgo as the first American city to be invaded by an aggressive strain of African bees that resulted in public panic. The bees were initially released in Brazil.
VBnbp TIL The so-called "Million Man March" was only about 400,000 people, in reality
L1vP TIL the City of Manchester in the UK has a “Gay Village”, which consists of a fully-gay supermarket, and the bars and clubs attract over 20,000 visitors per weekend.
x65jb TIL, the origin of the NIRVANA font, called Onyx, was chosen because they used “whatever was already installed in their typesetting machine”.
BJBb TIL Bertrand Russel said “in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”. This is actually a bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect which says unskilled individuals feel an illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their analysis to be much better than it is.