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TIL the decongestant in DayQuil and NyQuil don't work.

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nWyKG TIL Daniel D. Tompkins was the only Vice President in the 19th century to serve two full terms
JYeaV TIL that Former President John Tyler tried to organize a peace conference in 1861 to avert a civil war. At the same time, his granddaughter was ceremonially hoisting the flag for the Confederate convention in Alabama.
JYXjV TIL Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII, her funeral was the first Protestant funeral in England, Scotland or Ireland to be held in English. She is the only royal to be buried in a private residence.
vPbEx TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used
xVMyg TIL that the male fig wasp mate with the females inside the fig, and before dieing inside the fruit, they chew a hole for the females to escape from the fig interior.