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TIL that Michael J Fox was at one time a chain smoker.

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5xlP TIL 66 years ago today, the Berlin Airlift began. Landing one plane per minute for over a year, the airlift brought in 5000 tons of food and coal per day to Berlin.
ne7yr TIL Eli Whitney did not make his fortune from the cotton gin, but a later invention, the milling machine. This machine allowed the North to automate many industries and stay adequately supplied during the American Civil War.
Gbyg TIL that pleasant earthy smell after rain is called Petrichor and occurs due to the soil absorbing and then releasing oils from certain plants.
OGgOX TIL that the country with the most doctors per capita is Cuba (8.4 doctors per 1,000 people)
kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”