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TIL Weird Al Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement because he said “ a lot of my fans are young and impressionable”.

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neWM7 TIL of Regulatory Capture, when a governmental regulatory agency ceases to promote the interest of the public, but instead does the exact opposite by advancing the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.
w17W TIL In March 2001, while Rowan Atkinson was on a holiday trip to Kenya, the pilot of his private plane fainted. Atkinson managed to maintain the plane in the air until the pilot recovered, and was able to land the plane at Nairobi’s Wilson Airport.
kGGm TIL When billions of dollars in aid flowed to Afghanistan, the money was used to commission an airline to shuttle around UN officials and hire chauffeurs, rather than build local infrastructure or public services
1aYwX TIL about the Faint young Sun paradox that in Earths early history the energy output of the Sun was only 70% of what it is today, yet earth had liquid water and a climate hospitable to the formation of life, rather than the frozen environment that it should be with the Sun's reduced energy.
EglWo TIL there is a place and the only place today you can see Reindeers coexisting with Penguins is in the Kerguelen islands, an extremely distant subantarctic island located in Southern Indian Ocean.