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TIL of Sasha the black cat who was found in the city Santa Fe, Mexico 1,200 miles away five years after disappearing from her Portland home

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woAbM TIL that drop candy (e.g. lemon drops) gets its name from how the candy makers break apart the candy after it is rolled through a candy roller and subsequently cooled.
y7Ne TIL that on this day 100 years ago, Jack LaLane was born. When he opened his first health club, doctors advised their patients to stay away and warned their patients that “LaLanne was an exercise ‘nut,’ whose programs would make them "muscle-bound” and cause severe medical problems.
OoLDe TIL A Barbie with a real pink diamond choker sold for $302,500 in a New York auction
Gk05 TIL Jeremy Clarkson’s love of jeans has been blamed for the decreased denim sales mid-1990s, particularly Levi’s, because of their being associated with middle aged men. This is known as the “Jeremy Clarkson Effect”
GZvQ TIL that Mark Twain gave a lecture on Masturbation in which he poked fun at those who shunned the practice by making up quotes such as, “Homer, in the second book of the Iliad, says with fine enthusiasm, “Give me masturbation or give me death!”