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TIL in 2004 makers of “Action Man”, Hasbro asked children to vote on whether the main villain should be allowed to live. They killed him

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ep0gk TIL of the McDonalds Monopoly Scandal. In 2001, the U.S. promotion was halted after fraud was uncovered. The fraud spread nationwide and even involved Gennaro "Jerry" Colombo of the Colombo crime family.
5VBZk TIL that Kurioshi, Japan, has purpose-built tsunami evacuation towers
v5R8 TIL Star Trek actor who played Scotty shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
b6k6a TIL that they ironically found a cancer killing molecule in the tobacco plant.
690w TIL that jazz artist, Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet was bent by an accident one night. However, he liked the sound so much that he continued to have trumpets made that were bent upwards 45-degrees.