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TIL Cartoon Network actually managed to sneak an ad for themselves onto Nickelodeon

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950m TIL Freddie Mercury of Queen once dressed Princess Diana as a man and took her clubbing. Nobody recognized her.
W7gWd TIL of the Jevons paradox, which states that increasing efficiency in resource usage causes higher demand - sometimes increasing usage instead of reducing it.
0dQER TIL Isaac Newton's famous "Standing on the shoulders of giants" quote was actually a sarcastic rebuttal to his rival, Robert Hooke. Accused of plagiarism, Newton parroted the phrase to take a jab at Hooke's slight build, in effect saying that Hooke's work wasn't even worthy of being plagiarized.
e0MVL TIL that the distinctive look of the Curious George books is because, to save money, the artist hand-painted colour separations for a CMYK printing process. Hence the heavy use of primary colours and fringing on secondary ones.
KYAya TIL that the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course track has had 265 fatalities in its history, and has had only one year without any fatalities