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TIL Viagra can even make flowers stay erect

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NWpe TIL Johnny Carson once joked on The Tonight Show about a nonexistent toilet paper shortage which led to eventual panic buying leaving store shelves empty causing a real shortage that lasted weeks
RXA7 TIL that James Doohan (Scotty on ‘Star Trek’) received an honorary doctorate from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The university gave him the degree after half of its students said in a survey that his character had inspired them to choose engineering as a career.
J1vZm TIL South Carolina is the only state where all area codes start with an 8
O58a TIL Winston Churchill covered up the “Katyn Massacre” of 20,000 poles by the soviets to pursue the alliance, assuring them that “We shall certainly oppose vigorously any ‘investigation’ by the International Red Cross… Such investigation would be a fraud and its conclusions reached by terrorism”.
VBVmQ TIL: That Eminem was not even present when "Lose Yourself" won Best Original Song at the Oscars as he believed the song would not win. Instead, he was asleep at home after watching cartoons with his daughter. He did however go on to perform the song at the 92nd Academy Awards, some 17 years later.