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TIL that McDonald's once tried to sell bubblegum-flavored broccoli to encourage kids to eat healthier.

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LQxav TIL Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists. Today it is used to describe those who uphold the legacies of leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
9WNG TIL Burt Ward’s valuable Robin costume was stolen during a Q&A at Harvard by a gang of costumed henchmen lead by supervillian… Conan O'Brien.
yQj1e TIL that according to a study from UC Berkeley, the most successful marriages were those where the wife was able to calm down quickly after arguments – The husbands' emotional regulation had little to no bearing on long-term satisfaction.
6J7Z TIL that before the Soviet takeover, Afghan women comprised 50% of government workers, 70% of schoolteachers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul. Now the literacy rate for women is 12.6%. Only 6% of women get a high school education.
wX78 TIL The first king of the Kievan Rus was told by a priest that his horse would kill him, so he had the horse killed, visited its remains, and was killed by a snake that sprung from the horse’s skull.