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TIL During one week in November 1994, Tim Allen simultaneously starred in the highest grossing film (The Santa Clause), topped the New York Times best-seller list with his book Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, and appeared in the top rated television series (Home Improvement)

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p8gxQ TIL about "Operation Moolah", which offered large cash rewards to North Korean pilots who defected with an intact MiG-15 jet fighter. However, the only defector who ever met the conditions, No Kum-sok, was unaware of the offer. He was still paid $100,000 ($967,289 in today's money).
R7rNa TIL: Japan had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed all of the nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed
VB8Z TIL Pepsi sparked riots in the Philippines after it sponsored a million-peso contest and announced the wrong winning number, which resulted in 80,000 people thinking they’d won the jackpot. The backlash was so widespread that it united members of warring factions against Pepsi.
Wkw1L TIL of RH-null blood - called 'Golden Blood' by scientists, it is the rarest blood type in the world, with less than 50 individuals worldwide having the type.
b6EjN TIL in addition to the musical "Chess," Benny Anderssen and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote a musical called "Kristina från Duvemåla," a story of a young Swedish family emigrating to the United States in the mid 1800s (based on the Swedish novels "The Emigrants" by Vilhelm Moberg)