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TIL The UNICEF once showed an ad where they bombed the smurfs to raise money for charity.

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gM04W TIL 80 to 90 percent of high school graduates in Singapore are myopic. The same is true in China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea— all places where kids now spend far more time hunched over a desk or computer than did previous generations. Half the world could need glasses by 2050
ob88 TIL of Don LaFontaine. The guy who famously does the “In a World…” voice overs and has done over 5,000 film trailers.
Eg8lV TIL about the Lost Cause myth that originated after the Civil War by white Southerners to justify their defeat by downplaying slavery's role, celebrating an idealized South, and persisting through Confederate monuments and racial ideologies that ignore the true nature of slavery or the Civil War.
mxMoM TIL in fiscal year 2013 the IKEA Catalogue was printed in more than double the amount of copies than the Bible, despite only appearing in 43 countries.
womyP TIL that the average male will produce roughly 525 billion sperm cells over a lifetime. That's around five times the number of people who have ever lived.