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TIL at least four actors who played the Marlboro Man in ads have died of smoking-related diseases

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69Qx7 TIL that the American Cancer Society majorly updated guidelines for cervical cancer screenings. Old guidance: pap smear every 3 years for women 21-65. New guidance: HPV test every 5 years for women 25-65.
WkaKd TIL That Earth’s protective shield, protecting it from solar flares has a dent in developing for the past 200 years and is splitting it into two
GKPg TIL that, similar to the ‘Freedom Fries’ fiasco near the beginning of the war in Iraq, US citizens referred to sauerkraut as “Liberty Cabbage” near the beginning of WWII.
7r4xO TIL that the original proposal for the plot of the movie Anchorman was about news anchors trying to escape a mountaintop plane crash, while being stalked and killed by orangutans wielding ninja stars.
Oo547 TIL: In 1855 the mayor of Los Angeles, Stephen Foster, convinced a mob to not kill an accused murderer, but to try him in a court of law. When the accused man was acquitted, the mayor resigned and led a lynch mob to kill the man. He was re-elected a year later.