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TIL Barbie was modeled after a racy gag gift for adults and besides being just lovers, Barbie and Ken are named after a real life brother and sister: the son and daughter of the creator, Ruth Handler.

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Y6mW TIL the Lobsters we eat are generally really young and thus only a fraction of the size they grow to be in the wild. Older/Larger Lobsters are thought to be less tasty, and are a species that mates more prolifically with each year, making killing a 100+ yo behemoth a conservation issue.
nepVW TIL With only two clubs, the smallest football (soccer) league in the world is the Isles of Scilly Football League on the Isles of Scilly, 40 km southwest of the English mainland.
b9D7a TIL that some people don't have an inner internal monologue.
4XeK6 TIL During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy learned that a group of Kenyan students who had won scholarships to study at American universities didn't have enough funds to come. When Eisenhower refused to intervene, JFK arranged to have the Kennedy family foundation underwrite their travel
PYp0Z TIL a Stanford study (2016) found a positive correlation between use of profanity and honesty. In both individuals and groups, those who use profanity tend to be more fucking honest.