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TIL McDonald's tried to get kids to eat healthy by inventing bubble gum-flavored broccoli.

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NXMJ TIL Elizabeth Taylor was diagnosed with a genetic mutation at birth, resulting in a double row of eyelashes around her eyes.
7vkr TIL that ‘Stu the IT guy’ from the movie “What We Do In The Shadows” is actually an IT guy named Stu.
pYEBp TIL that in 2004 the average attention span was found to be 150 seconds long. By 2012 it had declined by half to 75 seconds, and by 2018 the average attention span had decline further to just 47 seconds long.
1d9d TIL NASA has decided to use Metric Units for all operations on the lunar surface when it returns to the Moon. The Vision for Space Exploration calls for returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and eventually setting up a manned lunar outpost.
epnmk TIL Electronic Arts was actively developing an open world RPG set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth back in 2007 called The White Council, in the same vein as Bethesda's Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. The game was canceled though for unknown reasons after a year or so of development