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TIL Cotton candy is called "old lady's hair" in India and Greece.

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MeWxB TIL Lewis Hamilton pledged £20m ($27.5m) to set up the Hamilton Mission in an effort to improve groups who are under represented in motorsports due to its extremely high cost entry barrier. Out of the 770 drivers in F1 history, he is the only black driver.
1aVJD TIL International Women's Day was founded by the Socialist Party of America and later became a national holiday in Soviet Russia. It was predominantly a Communist holiday until adopted by the UN in 1975.
lo0mB TIL of the "very sad dinosaur" that suffered from a brain tumor
jvvM TIL Leonardo da Vinci had extensive knowledge in painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He is considered one of the most diversely talented individuals to have ever lived.
l79o5 TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.