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TIL that giving aspirin to someone with chicken pox can be fatal.

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Epod TIL Of more than 10 million enslaved Africans to reach the Western Hemisphere, less than 4% of the total came to North America. To be dwarfed by 1.3 million brought to Spanish Central America, 4 million brought to British, French, Dutch & Danish holdings in the Caribbean and 4.8 million to Brazil.
MeEwm TIL Al Capone, set up an empty storefront with a bookshelf, a broken piano and old tables & chairs to look like an antique store. With advice from a friend, Capone learned to carry himself with the air of a legitimate businessman. Capone printed cards that read: Second Hand Furniture Dealer.
0Zn5 TIL that the worlds 5th oldest tree, The Senator, was burned down by a meth addict.
D1lKg TIL that the first "phone book" contained no phone numbers and wasn't a book. It was a sheet with the names of 50 people and businesses in New Haven, CT that owned a telephone
Y7mGW TIL while making “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”, Mars Incorporated, the company that owns M&Ms, refused to give director Steven Spielberg permission to use the candy in the movie. As a result, Spielberg used Reese’s Pieces. Sales for Reese’s Pieces jumped by 85% following the film’s release in 1982.