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Today I learned that Tinashe (R&B Artist) was the famous meme "Hero Girl" from Polar Express

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1VyP TIL that waxing and shaving of the pubic hair is killing off the population of crab lice.
rRlXe TIL That for 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe. In reality, their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals like lead from plates.
pDYA TIL that Einstein was rewarded Nobel Prize not for his works with relativity, but for discovery of photoelectric effect.
v1gE8 TIL that FDR's grandfather from his mother's side made a fortune from smuggling Opium into china that was banned due it being addictive, he later supplied the union army with it during the civil war.
jZOa TIL Americans now spend more money on slot machines than movies, baseball, and theme parks combined.