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TIL Vaselina is the Mexican title for the movie Grease
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TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.
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TIL an FDA study requested by the military found 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were still safe & effective even 15 years after the expiration date. Expiration dates don’t really indicate a point at which the medication is no longer effective or unsafe to use.
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TIL that the literacy rate in Massachusetts was higher in colonial times than it is today.
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TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.
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TIL that some families in China, when a relative dies, go through a 3 years period called "Filial Mourning", during this period they must refrain from any form of celebration, like parties, weddings, birthdays, etc.