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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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Ep1x TIL New York has an official militia called the New York Guard. Anyone 18-62 can join and basic training lasts 1 week. If you’re in it, you don’t have to pay tolls in New York.
W0QL TIL that if you earn more than $25,000 annually, you’re in the top 10% of the world’s income earners. If you earn more than $50,000 a year, you’re in the top 1% of the world’s income earners.
kJ7ZW TIL about Patti Lyle Collins, head of the US Dead Letter Office. She was known for her ability to deciper hard to read or incomplete addresses on mail, such as being able to deduce that a letter addressed to "Presidente Sterite, Catimoa" was meant to go to "President Street, Baltimore".
ADx5x TIL 80s hair band Warrant's lead singer Jani Lane's birth name was John Kennedy Oswald, born 3 months after his namesake's and his infamous surname's assassinations
XEWjE TIL that Superman had an alternative story where Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas.