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TIL Playdough was originally invented to clean soot off of wallpaper back when we used to burn coal for heat.

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X0kPR TIL a pastor was offered $250,000 to oppose a menthol cigarette ban from a tobacco company, RJ Reynolds
OGLNL TIL there's a film adaptation of Hatchet that spawned 3 sequels.
bEEN TIL: In the Olympics of 67 A.D., Emperor Nero competed in the 4-horse chariot races with a 10-horse team, only to be thrown from his chariot. He didn’t finish the race but he was still proclaimed the winner on the grounds that he would have won had he been able to complete the race.
6EX4Y TIL before people understood where some migrating birds went away to during the winter, it was sometimes theorized that they would hibernate at the bottom of lakes, or simply fly to the moon.
p0EQ TIL Charles Osborne had the hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to 1990. His hiccups first started in 1922 while weighing a hog for slaughter. He fell and busted a blood vessel in his brain resulting in him damaging a small part of the brain that inhibits the hiccup response