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TIL Roald Dahl lost his daughter to measles and wrote a letter urging people to vaccinate their children to stop them from dying.

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E1PZP TIL the first (pre-dynamite) suicide bombing occurred when a female Tamil army commander, Kuyili, covered herself in ghee, lit herself on fire, and walked into the armory of the british east india company, thereby securing a victory for her queen
erDE TIL that in pre-War Germany, it was considered fashionable and a status symbol for young men to have a scar on their left cheek from dueling with swords.
P1LPO TIL: John Cho is the actor who inadvertently popularized the term MILF
JYmol TIL there is a town in New Mexico named "Truth or Consequences". They changed it from "Hot Springs" in 1950 to win a radio contest.
R0Ej til that play-doh was originally invented to remove wallpaper