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TIL that Baby Oil is not made from babies but rather mostly from mineral oil or vegetable oil

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661X TIL: James May was fired from Autocar magazine after hiding a secret message that spelled out “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse.”
6EJdY TIL that most of the 9/11 hijackers had no idea that they were on a suicide mission. Evidence shows that the majority likely believed that they were taking the planes hostage as a means of leveraging the release of Al-Qaeda prisoners. Only the men trained to fly the planes knew the truth.
6EVPm TIL Liam Neeson was once a school teacher, but got fired because a student pulled a knife on him, and Neeson punched him
j6NyN TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store's stock and thinking "I can write better books than this." In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
RyNa TIL that in 1994 a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.