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TIL Bam Margera, while sponsored by Nike, hated wearing the shoes to skate so much, that he used other shoes and cut out a nike symbol to paste over them so he could skateboard properly

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nWXeB TIL about Sikkim, a Himalayan Kingdom that was independent for +300 years as recently as 1975, when the Chogyal, a Buddhist absolute monarch (except 1973-75) of Tibetan origin was desposed of in a referendum by his (mostly Hindu) subjects where the overwhelming majority (97%) voted to join India.
yxra TIL: The Mr Bean theme song translated is “behold the man who is a bean”. Ecce homo qui est faba.
BGyy TIL after the movie ‘Office Space’ came out, creator Mike Judge said T.G.I. Fridays got rid of all that (button) flair, because people would come in and make cracks about it. He believed he “maybe made the world a better place” because of this.
OoDL6 TIL so many Irish Women were enslaved by Vikings that by the time they colonized Iceland, the settler's genetics were roughly 50% Irish.
Xdxk TIL that in 1795, Napoleon offered a prize to anyone who could invent a way to preserve food and make it portable. A Parisian confectioner spent 15 years experimenting and won the prize.