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TIL Abraham Maslow never created a pyramid to represent his idea of hierarchy of needs

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J76V TIL that Alexandre Dumas, the French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was black.
JY0AV TIL of Sanford B. Dole, who became the President of the Republic of Hawaii, after a pro-American coup d'état overthrew the Hawaiian monarch. His government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States. His cousin founded the pineapple company that would become the Dole Food Company.
R7811 TIL that the Adirondack forest state park in New York State is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States, at over 6 million acres. It is larger in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Park combined.
WD8Y Til that A&W’s third-pound burger which had the same price as McDonald’s Quarter Pounder and which beat it in blind taste tests supposedly failed because consumers didn’t know that a third was bigger than a fourth
W79kL TIL that NBC had another sitcom in the works at the same time as Seinfeld also named for its main actor called Ann Jillian that scored better with test audiences than Seinfeld's pilot episode and NBC executives gave a full season order. It was canceled after just one season.