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TIL In December 2005, a doctor in England published research suggesting that girls often go through a stage where they hate their Barbie dolls and subject them to a range of punishments, including decapitation and placing the doll in a microwave oven.

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nexvB TIL the Kit Kat chocolate bar can trace its origins to a worker at the chocolate bar factory who put a note in the suggestion box saying the company should invent a chocolate bar that “a man could take to work in his pack up”.
8aAgP TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.
x69e0 TIL Kalaallisut is the principal language used by all native Greenlanders and most of them are bilingual in Danish, and trilingual, with English. But in Nunavut, Canada, young Inuit prefer to use English and most cannot speak in Inuktitut about everyday life
ad8J TIL that Matt Damon didn’t want to get involved in the ‘Bourne’ videogame because he wanted 'a game like Myst’
W6Zd TIL J.R.R. Tolkien sold the film rights to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy for less than $20,000 in 1969. The films have grossed more than $6 billion worldwide.