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TIL Snow White’s stepmother had to dance in hot iron shoes until she died.

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Z8rRv Today I learned that during the preparation for the Apollo 11 mission, those going aboard the spacecraft took poetry lessons, to be able to creatively convey what it felt like on the moon.
wEY6 TIL at age 16 Sybil Ludington rode twice the distance as Paul Revere to announce the British were coming.
e07Mn TIL that tons of wreckage from the USS Arizona, removed during Memorial construction in 1962, were dumped on the ground in Waipio Peninsula near Pearl Harbor, and remain there today.
1M1V TIL Oil-Dri was, a product invented for cleaning up oil spills on the garage floor it was not until a cat pissed in a bucket of Oil-Dri that they realized another use for it, cat litter. That is how Cat’s Pride became the first cat litter.
4X5Bw TIL weed smoking substantially elevates heart rate and risk of heart attack