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TIL That E-cigarettes were first invented in the 1960s, but were never sold in order to protect the traditional cigarette market

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Y4Y7 TIL Power posing to boost testosterone as described in Amy Cuddy’s famous TED talk fails to replicate in independent studies
x6VP1 TIL An ad for Tango, a soft drink in the UK, which showed a topless orange man slapping people as a metaphor for tasting the drink, caused a craze where kids would slap each other and say "You've been Tango'd!" With one child suffering a perforated ear drum. The ad was withdrawn.
a8e1y TIL our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to contain between 100 and 400 billion stars
Gn85 TIL rage comics are used to teach English to foreigners due to their simplicity and easy to understand expressions.
xQjb TIL that Neanderthals’ voices were actually high-pitched and nasal, not deep and baritone like many assume.