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TIL that US Representatives don't have to live in their district, just their state

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Xgy6 TIL Instead of kissing, Manchu mothers used to show affection for their children by performing fellatio on their male babies while regarding public kissing with revulsion.
QJb0e TIL Pepperidge Farm (cookie brand) was founded by a woman named Margaret Rudkin. She got into baking due to her son's severe asthma and his allergies to most processed foods. After her success selling her baked goods, she sold the company to Campbell's and became their first female board member.
m0VE TIL Walt Disney & Salvador Dali collaborated on a short film called “Destino” in 1945
yQP8M TIL that the rescue dogs searching the 9/11 rubble got depressed from constantly finding dead bodies so their handlers had firemen hide so the dog could find them and play.
J1X9l TIL that Purdue Pharma claimed that oxycontin was not addictive by citing, among others, a document titled "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics" which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine...as a letter to the editor.