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TIL Vaselina is the Mexican title for the movie Grease

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0wGly TIL President Truman, on the advice of his physician, started his morning with a shot of bourbon, followed by a large glass of orange juice.
grLy8 TIL In 1976, Ray Kurzweil unveiled the first reading machine for the blind, using optical character recognition and text-to-speech technology. After hearing about it on The Today Show, Stevie Wonder became its first user and a lifelong supporter.
VP80 TIL of a 3000 year old ball game in mexico where the losers were sacrificed to the gods; it is now being revived.
J1gVm TIL that the Goseck Circle, a neolithic structure in Germany has entrances that align with the sunrise and sunset on both the winter and summer solstice. It was built around 4,900 BC making it nearly 7,000 old. This makes it older than Newgrange in Ireland and Stonehenge in England.
rdy1 TIL that there is a positive correlation between vitamin D and testosterone levels in men. The more sunlight exposure a man gets the more likely it is that he has elevated testosterone levels.