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TIL that the tobacco industry codenamed lung cancer “ZEPHYR” to avoid acknowledging it in internal memos.

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aKxo TIL in 2010 a prank show aired on Iraqi TV where fake bombs were put under celebrities cars. The celebrities were busted at checkpoints and threatened with prison time and execution.
N7kpM TIL Chuck Norris has his own martial arts system, called Chun Kuk Do, which is based on his training in the military while in Korea.
5Nj8 TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.
nWNWW TIL everyone has Olfactory Adaption and cannot smell their surroundings after a few minutes. This is why you cannot smell your house but your guests can.
NRm8 TIL a soldier posted on Peleliu in 1944 craved ice-cream so much that together with aircraft engineers put a can filled with milk onto the underside of each wing tip of their planes, attaching a stirring shaft to a wind-driven propeller and then taking off. They made 100 portions of ice every day.