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TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino a “substantial” amount of money to NOT wear their clothes, saying it would “Cause significant damage to [their] image”

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awkmy TIL that Kim Jong Il’s eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, was expected to succeed his father’s rule until he got caught trying to sneak into Japan to go to Disneyland. So that Disneyland trip prevented him from being supreme ruler of North Korea.
6dDJ TIL there was supposed to be a Pinocchio film to be released in 1936, predating Disney’s Pinocchio by four years. It was meant to be the first Italian animated film, but for unknown reasons the film was never completed and it is considered lost
ne7mY Britain's new generation of street lights risk dramatically increasing rates of breast and prostate cancer, according to a new study.
Y79AZ TIL Unix time, a concept originating from the Unix operating system developed in the 1960s, represents timestamps as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC This method simplifies parsing and utilizing time across various systems by representing it as an integer.
1kLP TIL Mary-Kate Olsen refused to speak to authorities about the death of Heath Ledger without the promise of legal immunity