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TIL neither the Spice Girls themselves or their management came up with the Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger, Posh aliases. They were devised by Top of the Pops magazine in 1996 and later adopted by the group

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OGPGe TIL that in the music video for “YMCA”, the Village People do not preform the iconic dance, as it was suggested to the band by Dick Clark on “American Bandstand” six months after the video was shot.
VAL4 TIL: Some wasps make honey
GYVGg TIL Vancouver, Canada has the least affordable housing in North America, more expensive than Manhattan and San Francisco
D1J6e TIL that during WW2, the British goverment sent out pamphlets to the public, which led to over 750,000 pets being euthanized.
RlJ6 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg’s heroin addiction was so severe that it mangled his right leg to the point of amputation, instead doctors performed a 13 hour surgery to save his leg leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.