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TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.

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g6OD TIL lipstick may contain metal in toxic amounts. Daily use of lipstick and/or lip gloss may expose women to excessive amounts of the metal chromium which is associated with stomach cancer. Also, 75% of products tested contain lead. There is no way for consumers to find out a product’s metal content.
rRG7x TIL people who are always running late tend to end up living a longer and healthier life according to Harvard researchers.
e079L TIL Some high end Mercedes vehicles will play a loud "pink noise" when it detects an incoming collision. This triggers your ears to tense specific muscles and prevents the loud noise from the crash from causing hearing loss.
R7Eol TIL that Ken Eto, the first American-Asian leader in the mafia, was shot 3 times in the head at close range. After the hitmen ran, he climbed out of the car, walked a few blocks over to the nearest pharmacy and politely asked for medical attention. He lived to 84.
eOP4 TIL that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn’t like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn’t like the “anti-consumerism” theme of the plot – and they didn’t like the music.