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TIL Harris Rosen, a man that helped Disney launch The Contemporary and The Polynesian hotels was fired right after the projects because he wasn’t a “company man.” He went on to create a scholarship fund for his city with 11MM of his own funds. Crime rates have plummeted and graduation rates soared.

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ARp7 TIL that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was elected with 100% of the votes. The ballot listed only him. Citizens are allowed to cross out his name and write in a new one, but they must step outside the election booth to do so, and write down the new name in front of election officials.
9LkD TIL in 2003, a man with a warrant for his arrest was caught on a “Kiss Cam” when his parole officer happened to be at the Cincinnati Reds game too
LdEV TIL: Adding lanes to highways doesn’t reduce traffic, it increases it…a phenomenon called induced demand
GY81j TIL until the 1970s, lookism in the United States was sometimes codified into law. In many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they had diseases or disfigurements that were considered unsightly
8dYV TIL Jackie Wilson always kissed the “ugliest” girl in the audience because “they’ll all think they can have me and keep coming back and buying my records.”