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TIL in 2012, the FDA recorded 5 cases of people being burned after their sunscreen caught on fire. One instance happened after a person lit a cigarette, another came near a candle, and one near a grill. One cause of this was a sunscreen's defective spray valve which dispensed more than was typical.

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o4KY TIL Ryan Gosling turned down the opportunity to be in the Backstreet Boys before they became big.
WkRx4 TIL that Prince has used many names in his lifetime, such as Alexander Nevermind, Christopher Tracy, The Kid, The Purple Purv, The Minneapolis Midget, & finally The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. As a child he was called Skipper.
Br4dD TIL that the Hooded Pitohui is one of the first known poisonous birds. Their feathers give off a neurotoxin (homobatrachotoxin) which causes numbness and has previously only been found in the skin of poison dart frogs. It inhabits the rainforests and tropical jungles of New Guinea.
QJ6Aa Today I Learned about Operation Legacy, a covert program by the British Foreign Office to destroy colonial documents in order to "avoid embarrassment". In 2011, victims of the British response to the Mau Mau Uprising helped unearth 20,000 of the surviving documents that were classified.
N7OAE Today I learned that Grover Cleveland became the first sitting president to get married. He married a woman 27 years younger than him, Frances Folsom, whom he had literally known since her birth. After Folsom's father died when she was 11, Cleveland became her legal guardian.