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TIL McDonalds considered changing their logo in the 60’s until a psychologist advised against it, because the golden arches carried the “Freudian symbolism of a pair of nourishing breasts.”

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P1EAZ TIL of the Hell Creek Formation, a band of 66-million-year-old rocks that records the last million years of the dinosaurs’ reign and is found in parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. It’s where the T Rex was discovered in 1902
yVO9X TIL, in film, a clapperboard’s purpose is ensuring proper synchronization of audio and video in post-production. It provides a distinct “clap” along with a visual event for the editor to reference at the start of a scene.
8aP9G TIL that the genesis is still being manufactured in Brazil and sells about 150,000 consoles per year
d7nj TIL Einstein considered himself an agnostic, not an atheist: “You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth.”
wLGAP TIL Karl Marx has a living great-great-grandson named Joseph Marx who does parkour for money outside of a McDonalds in Kingston, UK