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TIL most tobacco products contain radioactive material in the final product.

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M7mxK TIL that the Technocracy Movement of the 30’s suggested technical experts become national decision makers rather than politicians, and proposed unifying Northern America from Panama to Greenland.
MvB0 TIL Joe Pesci’s Oscar acceptance speech is one of the shortest of all time at 5 words. He said: “It’s my privilege. Thank you.”
b9Yv0 TIL that Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant who draws detailed landscapes from memory and was featured in a BBC documentary as a child, now has his own gallery in London. A 76m panoramic memory drawing of New York is on display at JFK Airport. He was appointed an MBE in 2006.
LkrxZ TIL that Unity Mitford, one of Hitler's inner circle and sister-in-law to British Fascist Oswald Mosley was conceived in Swastika, Ontario, Canada
R57Q4 TIL the reason McDonald’s retired it’s mascot Ronald McDonald in 2016, was due to the clown sightings craze which was occurring that year.